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

It was actually my second "real" system...but it is simply historic how many people that love great audio systems and the music they allowed us to enjoy started or at one time owned the original Large Advents.  If there is to be a list of the most influential audio products of all time, the Large Advent would be at or near the top.  I guess another interesting question would be how many sets of these Large Advents are still in use.  My brother in law and my sister still have a set of Small Advents in use in their den. 
whatjd
hickamore
596 posts
 
Me too. Until you mentioned it, I had completely forgotten the name Advent. A black hole in the memory bank. Right . . . getting a fuzzy mental image now . . . but it was the intro to lower end of high end of forever long ago. Certainly equal to whatever electronics I had at the time.
sameyers1
127 posts
 
Similar to others, the Large Advents were the first decent speakers I owned, and were purchased from Harvey Sound in NY with a Sansui AU-999 integrated amp, Marantz tuner, Dual 1219 tt w/Stanton 681ee cartridge, and Tandberg tape deck. Those speakers were in our household for over 20 years. The amp is on a closet shelf and still works, although I haven't used it in years. The Advents played lots of great music and recall many fond memories.  
nicco
11 posts
 
Not my first set as mine was a pair of JBL L-166es but I was very lucky to
find last year a pair of Large Advents in very good condition at an excellent price. I haven't really listened to them as I've been giving more attention to the newly acquired ESS AMT Tower 1's and Snell Type A-ll's.
One of these days....
 

shutupuface
33 posts
 
I'm still using my Large Advents (1973) with refined woofers and cross overs redone.
jrwaudio
333 posts
 
No Advents or JBL but did have Cerwin Vegas's AT-10's with teac cassette and Marantz 2265B reciever. I'm still trying to forget the CV speakers  I remember replacing them with Paradigm SE 9's I though it was such an improvement!! My Son still has SE 9's speakers
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