amplifier for large advents?


I just bought a nice pair of original Large Advents. Which are the speakers I should have bought in 1973 when I purchased my very first stereo system. So any thoughts on a nice amp to drive them? Vintage or newer would both be ok. Not more then about $1000 used. I've been thinking about vintage Levinson, Audio Research, Krell and such but all a bit more than I want to spend. I haven't listened to a pair of Advents in decades so any current owners opinions would be greatly appreciated.
dfwlistener
The amps one already have sitting in the attic are definitely the right ones to try! :^)
Dfwlistener: The crossbraces get glued inside. Pretty easy to do even for a klutzy non-woodworker like me. Buy some maple 1" x 1" stock at home depot.. just measure very closely and over cut not undercut until piece fits snub between front and back baffles.. glue in with wood glue..
I used somewhat inexpensive "gold plated" connectors from parts express as I did not want to spend hundreds on connectors. I used the Swedish made 12 gau wire from Madisound web site with good results (I've used this in all my speaker rebuilds.. inexpensive and sounds pretty good.) I used a couple of Kimber caps to get the right value, this improved midrange warmth and glow. There was a guy on ebay did crossover kits for these and others.. for AR speakers as well. Also he had some really good vintage looking grill cloth for AR's that I used on my advents and they look great. One thing I did was remove the inner black grill cloth to reduce the amount of fabric 'blocking' the sound. I also removed the fried egg tweeter metal grill, you have to be (obviously) very careful with this, but it opened up the tweeter dynamics a bit.
Hi Dfwlistener,I have a pair of Large Advent speakers and I drive mine with a vintage Marantz 2275 receiver and they sound wonderful together. You ought to consider this receiver , I think that you would be very surprised.
Carter