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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. 
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muzikat
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First high end speakers were Rectlinear 3s.
Advents from 1977-1994. Used a Marantz 2270 to power them.
have owned a few pairs since, just for fun
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pjr801
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Never owned a pair of advents but this post piqued my interest. Checking these out online I was amused by this paragraph from a Stereophile post by dalethorn-
"The Advent was my first serious speaker system, inspired by the Stereophile review and embellished by the literature supplied by Mr Henry Kloss, containing such classic phrases as "Hoffman’s Iron Law" and "The shortest distance between two points is a straight line or the line that’s the straightest under the circumstances."
Great doubletalk
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barts
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Yup my first pair of speakers (after I cobbled some together using TV and console stereo throw-aways) were the Large Advents.  Love those speakers, got 'em in the early 70's had them until just ~5 years ago.  Replaced the drivers at least twice due to foam rot.  I paid $100 each.  My old man almost had a heart attack, but I had earned the $.  How much did you pay?
schubert
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Advents were best for Rock , AR's a bit better on Acoustic music.Best buy was the KLH _17  which still sounds good on Classical music .
I sold all three of them .
nc03854
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I certainly did.  Powered by a Harman Kardon receiver.   
Heard a pair recently at an event.  Thought they sounded muddy by modern standards.  
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