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

I was at the CES show in Chicago the year Henry brought the original VideoBeam TV.  We watched a large format tape of Blazing Sadles on it at the Drake Hotel and if I remember drinking some very basic wine.  A good time.  Meet Saul Marantz there once as well when he was helping Jon Dahlquist.  One of the people and company that I loved were Magnepan...

After the Videobeam a person at Advent, I believe Andy Petite, helped with the Advent 2 speaker and the first version had only one tweeter (in production they did 2 at an angle)  the high frequencies were shot out is such a straight line that some called it the AudioBeam.

Large Advents were my third speaker and my first decent ones.  After that Mc ML-1's for (too many) years.  Much better ones now.

My wife had Large Advents in her Deli. They sit up on top of a shelf that went all the way round  the main dining area. At the same time, I had Infinity 1001A speakers with the rear tweeter. I liked her Advents, but liked my Infinity's better.

I had stacked large Advents as well  They were great. Replaced with B&W 802Fs, also great. 

If this counts, the first pair of speakers I purchased just after High school were the large Advents of the time, early 90's the Advent Maestro. A 3 way design. I also purchased a Sansui RZ 9500 from local hifi shop. I remember how happy I was at that time. I still have them. Refoamed the woofers and recapped the xover and braced the cabinets. Still have the Sansui as well. I think I will always keep them. Reminder of how this all started....