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

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.  

I was very young when I was introduced to the world of audio equipment, and, the fascinating world, of the reproduction of recorded music. Listened to, and used, more often than my dad, his system, which included AR3a speakers. I soon acquired my own system, and from my singing coach / music teacher, his pair of Klipsch Cornwalls, the vertical version, when he upgraded to KHorns. Went through numerous, and I mean, numerous, equipment / speaker / environmental ( room ) changes, throughout my life, and it all has resulted, in where I am at today. Enjoy ! MrD.

Excuse me. Next would be Allison One's then the Acoustats. 

The Advents are exceptional in our history, but their predecessor, the Acoustic Research AR series (1-7), had the greatest impact.  With their newly invented sealed woofer, followed by their newly invented dome mids and tweets, they revolutionized audio, holding around 33% market share of all hi-fi speakers sold in the US. These were 1/8th the size of comparible speakers and sounded better for much less money.  The new transistorized electronics made the system affordable.   For you relative newbies,  Professor Ed Vilchur, who invented these things, as well as the three point base turntable (which became the Aristoon and Linn Sondek),  partnered with speaker cabinet maker Henry Kloss, who was later the K in KLH, before founding Advent, and later, Cambridge Audio.  Advent is certainly a big part of this revolution, being even more affordable than AR and KLH.  Also of interest, Advents only existed to fund Kloss' development of his large screen, projection televisions.  The dual diaphram, mid tweet used in the Advent was  copied and presumably improved by Thiel.

Large Advents were my second set of decent speakers, bought in the mid 80s.  My first pair of speakers were Sansui Sp-100s  bought in 1969.

I am now listening to 3.6 Maggies that were bought new in 2006.  It has been a journey and I found an equipment mix that got me off the upgrade merry go round.