An Advent Guy

These were my first "serious" speakers - I think my brother still is using them.

They are a classic.

I know it ain't perfect but I'm loving the sound coming out of my early 80's vintage Dual 1264 table with almost as ancient Goldring MM cartridge in in my second system more than ever with the equally vintage Yamaha cr-420 receiver I adapted off Ebay last summer.

OK the speakers are less dated Triangle Titus 202s, but don't hold that against me. Hey, even they are amazingly a good 9-10 years old already as well!

Cwlondon,

I hear what you're saying. In terms of possible sound quality, I might agree in general but there have been improvements to many individual component designs I'm pretty sure. How significant are they? That's largely debateable.

I do think Class D amps are one design that have broken considerable new ground at least in terms of efficiency if not ultimate sound quality, but I do think Class D makes a good high current high power amp affordable for many and that is significant.

the variety and scope of selling 'two drivers in a box' is unending. sometimes 'getting back to where you once belonged' helps to put the insanity in check. the last time i was in london i heard a very infamous 2 way (oversized bookshelf) type speaker selling for 7 thousand pounds....was it cool?...oh yeah...was it in a different league than my old buddy, the large advent?... not at all.....the cabinets were 'beautiful', but a weekend with the advents reminded me that the '20 year old me' wouldn't have spent 20 seconds pondering the worth of a 7k pair of anything.

My stacked walnut cased Large Advents powered by a pair of KT88 tube monoblock amplifiers. The crossover capacitors were inexpensively upgraded (Solen caps) and the stuffing was adjusted. I also put good wire inside. These speakers have been subjected to critical review by a group of audio builder/designers who found their musical presentation to be remarkably good and competetive with very high end systems. Soundstage breadth and depth is perhaps the most immediately impressive feature of the inverted stacks. Bass authority is hard to beat, even with a sub, and detail, transparency, and extension are all there. See Harry Pearson's review in The Absolute Sound archives for the stacked pair. Mine sound better due to the capacitor replacement. I am using a $4K pair of beautiful, superb modern speakers plus dual subs, but they do not match the Large Advents in some of the dimensions mentioned above. If my wife would relent, I would move them back to the living area and perform further tweeks.