Usless but interesting ....how many of you old timers started with original Large Advents?

They were my first good speaker. I replaced them with the Dahlquist DQ 10 that used that Advent woofer. And they are both on this list!

http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/the-12-most-significant-loudspeakers-of-all-time/

Slightly OT, but I used my Advent 3 for about 15 years before I could afford something else.  After I got divorced and was in a relationship I wound up gifting them to my girlfriend and was pretty impressed with their sound , at that stage 30 years old and having sat in a basement for a decade after years of heavy use.  We broke up a few months later and after no communication for several months I called her out of the blue wondering if I could have the speakers back and the line went dead before I could finish the sentence...

First "decent" speakers I had were Infinity Qe, small bookshelf size and at the time thought they were great. Ignorance is bliss.

Large Advent was my first good speaker.  They had 2 versions, I could only afford the lower cost more plain looking ones. 

Nope ....

back in the Jurassic age of this hobby .... (early 70’s)...

Bookshelves sequentially in first system:
DYNACO A25s...
then EPIs.....
then finally the JBL L100’s

Nostalgia has its appeal in certain circles for sure . They were  fine for their time in my university dorm with the MARANTZ receiver  of that early age, but those old systems don’t measure up even with the budget options available today.