One day I may set them up for comparision with my Divas. I still have the 4 in mint condition in storage. When stacked, they become a different beast altogether!! The sound becomes astonishing considering the system costs $400. In fact with high end electronics with good power 100+ wpc, they were exceptional for the time and can easily compete with some of todays speakers costing up to $1000.Ģ. At $200 per pair, they were considered cheap, so they were included in basically low fi systems. It took the Apogee Calipers and finally the Divas for me to upgrade.ġ. At the end I drove them with an Adcom tuner preamp and the 555 power amp. I drove the fronts with a Marantz 1200 Int amp 125 wpc. I had 4 stacked (tweeter to tweeter) for the fronts and singles for my rear channels. If I was forced to own a '70s speaker, I'd take my 'New Large' Advents back in a second: they could play loud, decent dispersion, a warmish engaging sound with wonderfully natural midrange for a large 2-way, and conveyed more detail and dynamics than you'd expect (as the stereophile reviewer reported).Īs much as I enjoyed them, technology does march forward: I'm no Advent guru, just recalling the thousands of hours they provided my music.ĪH the vintage large Advent speakers!! For many years 1971-1997 they were my main speakers. Sure, the Thiels are a far better speaker esp wrt soundstaging, but there's a lot to be said about Advent's 12" woofers and a simple crossover. I sold my Advents for VERY similar sounding Boston A200s, but have been listening to Thiel 2.3&4 since 2002. A big part of the change was more output from a redesigned tweeter to take advantage of the less-hashy HF reproduction offered by newer transistor electronics of the later '70s (it's all relative!) The reviewer's concern of the missing high frequencies would have been much less-so with the 'new'. The side-by-side difference was not subtle, with a far more open and less-congested midrange on the 'large', along with obviously deeper more defined bass from a 2" bigger woofer.īoth speakers were redesigned in '79 (?) and renamed the 'new' (small/large) advent loudspeaker. The recent stereophile review was of the 'smaller 'old' advent loudspeaker', which was a dumbed-down version of the 'large' model. I tried double advents with a friend, but the Sansui 717 amp always popped its breaker after 5min. I had auditioned mine from time to time with top-notch electronics of the '80s and they only sounded better. Because they were inexpensive speakers, they were too often paired with cheap gear of the '70s and the awful sound was blamed on the speakers. I replaced the electrolytic crossover caps with much better poly caps. I drove mine fine for years ('79-'89) with a modded Advent 300 receiver. The spec for the 'New Large' Advent loudspeaker was 89dB/W/m.
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