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My New Large Advents

OH MY GOODNESS!! I bought a pair of re foamed Large Advents on Ebay. Just unpacked them and hooked them up to my reference system (MacMini, Amarra, Rotel DAC, ARC SP17, ARC VS60, Nordost Purple Flair, Shunyata Power) in place of my Golden Ear T2s. I can't believe how good these crazy 37 year old speakers are. And no subwoofer!!! Do they image as well? Not quite, but not bad. The highs seem a little bright in extended mode but not bad in normal. If I had bought these back in 1973 when I bought my first system, I might never have traded for anything else. They are really dynamic. Very efficient. My room is 32'x18' with a 20' cathedral ceiling and these things with 60 watts of tube are rockin like crazy.

So has anyone done a mirror image mod on the tweeters and if so, did it accomplish anything?
dfwlistener
isochronism
2,893 posts
 
"All in all not bad for a girl" ?
I never was taken in by "The weaker sex" scam.
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audiolabyrinth
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so what happened to Advent?, are they around these days?, I had a pair of Advents way back in the day too, then I got a pair of Bose 601 series two, The Advents were gone after that, the Bose really did not have much deep bass, but over all, for what they costed back then, they did ok with a Yamaha Natural sound top of the line reciever, the R-100, and Yamaha belt drive turn table with top of the line shure cartridge, I remember listening to Heart back then, Baracuda Rocked on that turn table with this set up very nicely for a cheap system, this was very fun, I was a kid, one of my first systems!, 1980 or around 1982?, long time ago, cheers.
jetrexpro
506 posts
 
I had the large advents for years. They sounded great. If I still had them I would opt for an amp that has a warmish mid range. As I remember the mids were a bit on the lean side.
polarin
73 posts
 
Advent's and a Marantz 2275 = bliss...
blkadr
739 posts
 
Those Advents sure had (have) a following. If I remember correctly, the proper speaker stand for Large Advents would be a pair of milk crates. Spent many hours with them.
I have the pair of Frazier Concertos I bought back in the day, got a few other sets of older speakers including original Wharfedale Diamonds.
Most recently picked up a pair of Mission Cyrus 781s ($79)from the late 80s I believe. These things sound surprisingly good with as little as 12wpc, love them.
I'm a sucker for old speakers.
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