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

2 Pair stacked - Large Walnut Advents

Yep.  Large Advents from 1976 - 1987, when I heard Vandersteen 2C's really well set up.  That really began my high end fascination (and coincided with me finally working full time, and paid right).

@jbrrp1 and Vandersteen make an upgraded version of the 2 today and not one part is the same - evolution and refinement in a repeat cycle...I spoke with Richard the other day and he was working on a low / no cost way to make the current model 2 even better.,,,

fun

my first speaker was Infinity Qb

From my first speakers, Fisher 3 way 12", I switched to large wooden Advents, then bought a second set for my Fisher quad receiver.  Soon, I had a Crown preampand Phase Linear 400 on these stacked Advents.  The wood ones do sound a bit better. For decades I wondered why, until B&W did a lot of laser imaging.  The bezels deflect the driver's backward motion sound away from the push signal.  Eventually, I got early B&W's, the ones with the KEF ovalish woofer (Used to keep the cabinet narrow to minimuze the value added tax), along with a Celestion mid tweet and a Coles supertweeter.  Next were the B&W DM 14's, eventually stacked. Later I added Acoustats for the sweet Electrostatic mids, and kept them for 25 years, along with the four 14's.  They were sold when I got my 803's. My telly uses 2 of the 14's on the original stands. 

They were not that bad MC. They were a fabulous speaker for the money. That donut dome tweeter managed to get down pretty low allowing a two way design. I used two of them as a center channel between my Heresy's. Everything was being driven by a Fuzz Liner 700. It was a rockin system for a collage kid. I would sell all four speakers when I was given a pair of Bozak Symphony's which I ditched when I graduated. They were so darn nasal. I could never get then to sound good. Next would be Acoustat X's and off to La La Land.