look what came to my door

leftwinger57

After going through whether to bother w/ those Sansui SP-3200s the entire audio community said stay away no matter how cheap. Well who am I to argue w/ the masses and went out for some coffee and and I see one of my neighborhood service guys w/ 2 speakers on my landing. I couldn't tell what they were but they are a set of Advent Prodigy Towers that do work Of course the surrounds are rotted away but I could farm that to Dave or if not to shaky do both myself. They sound fine as it goes now but I can't push them or poof.Here's what they look like. With my ADC303ax failing I could use them to fill a spot on the old selector The grill covers are in good shape also I gave the dude $5 for schelpping those over to my apt..

oldrocker

As for me,
I always like finding something for cheap to tinker with..

mhardy6647

I imagine they'll be similar to the Legacy IIs that are here (and are also - ahem - for sale), which is to say... not bad at all.

Refoaming is very straightforward; betcha money you could do it yourself.

There are many options for foam surrounds and glue to use -- ranging from cheap and generic (MAT Electronics, e.g.) to fairly expensive, comprehensive, 'exact replacement' kits.

I recently purchased proper replacement foams for some other loudspeakers (not the Legacys) from Rick Cobb, who is highly thought of, and for good reason. His prices are very reasonable, he's phenomenally fast and pleasant to deal with, and his products are top-shelf.

The other very worthwhile investment to make in those will be to replace any crossover capacitors (most likely only one per speaker) with decent modern ones. No need to over-invest; the "Dayton Audio" capacitors sold by PartsExpress are perfectly dandy for an application like these loudspeakers.

109 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr

I put generic surrounds on these, FWIW.

EDIT: resist the temptation to use them sans surrounds on the woofers :-/
OK to test them, judiciously, but not OK to do much else.
The woofers and baskets look like they've already been cleaned of the old foam residue.
Those woofers are supremely easy to refoam -- not too big, not too small... and the VC gap isn't too tight.

mhardy6647

FWIW, here's a before & after shot of one of another Advent Legacy II pair that passed through my basement some years back :-/

before:

P1020667 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr

after:

P1030006 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr

boston1450

Nice find. Advents are fun winter projects

leftwinger57

DOC,I have done surrounds before. I had all 4 8'' woofers on my long gone Bose 601s and they came out great. Most know I tend to have a heavy hand but just 2 8" foams shouldn't be all that bad. I was shocked how good they sounded sans the surrounds. Plenty of 8" kits all over E-BAY for $20 and change w/ free shipping.
Yes I know not to let them rip until done and clean both the cone edge and the metal rim. One question, one guy used the typical white ( ELMERS) GLUE TYPE) and another dude from Simply Speakers used a clear glue from a tube like plastic modlers stuff. Which is the right stuff ?
I can't forget to order the gray beauty rings also.

mhardy6647

Probably worth noting that these (the Prodigys & the Legacys, for that matter) are not Henry Kloss-era Advents but rather date from the era in which Jensen owned the Advent name and marketed speakers thereunder.

Not bad loudspeakers at all (indeed, the tweeters are probably better in many respects) but not the classic Advents.

Good resources for Advent info:

http://www.classicspeakerpages.net/ (mostly for the 'real' Advents, but the forum is worth perusing for info on later Advents, too)

http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/index.php?threads/identifying-your-advent-loudspeakers.126376/ (I think one may need to be logged in to AK to see the images)

mhardy6647

leftwinger57 wrote: »

DOC,I have done surrounds before. I had all 4 8'' woofers on my long gone Bose 601s and they came out great. Most know I tend to have a heavy hand but just 2 8" foams shouldn't be all that bad. I was shocked how good they sounded sans the surrounds. Plenty of 8" kits all over E-BAY for $20 and change w/ free shipping.
Yes I know not to let them rip until done and clean both the cone edge and the metal rim. One question, one guy used the typical white ( ELMERS) GLUE TYPE) and another dude from Simply Speakers used a clear glue from a tube like plastic modlers stuff. Which is the right stuff ?
I can't forget to order the gray beauty rings also.

I think those are 10" woofers -- aren't they?
(the woofers in the Legacy II are 10")

MAT Electronics generic 10" foams are 3 bucks a pop -- but they're completely generic & they have a fairly substantial minimum order (i.e., no bargain if one's not stocking up or there's other stuff they sell that one "needs").

Sorry, I didn't know/remember that you'd lost your foam surround virginity ;- )

EDIT: Elmer's isn't great for surrounds. Aileens tacky glue is better and the supplied adhesive with surrounds kits is better still in that it's easier to work with. All three are PVA (polyvinyl alcohol) type glues AFAIK, but regular Elmer's isn't as flexible.

Note -- I realize there are pros on this site; my ramblings on this topic are decidedly nonprofessional and should be taken as just my opinions; i.e., with a grain of salt!