The New Advent Loudspeaker - Walnut - Bullnose - Large

Gempler
Gempler Posts: 308
edited March 2017 in For Sale (FS) Classifieds
Original owner selling a nice set of The New Advent Loudspeaker.
These are the Walnut finish with the Bullnose front.
Excellent working condition and good cosmetic condition.
Re-foamed about 7 years ago so that will not need to be done again for many years to come.
Please message me for pictures and details.
Thanks!
Selling price: $200.00.
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  • Gempler
    Gempler Posts: 308
    Yes, despite how great these speakers sound there is no secret that they are large by today's standards and so a tough sell, particularly in a major metropolitan city where space is a premium. They are also nearly 50lbs each making them both difficult to safely package and expensive to ship. But that does not diminish their exceptionally good sound or good looks. Add to the mix that just about anyone under 35 has little appreaciotion for hifi as they grew up using portable electronics and listening to music from tiny low fidelity speakers (headphones) in noises environments and so don't really care about or know about how good things could sound. So I appreciate you wishing me luck with the sale. If I was desprate to sell I would just part them out, but being my first pair of speakers I would love to see them find a new and appreative home.
    Thanks!
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  • Gempler
    Gempler Posts: 308
    Thanks for the bump!
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  • Gempler
    Gempler Posts: 308
    Thanks for the bump!
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  • Gempler
    Gempler Posts: 308
    Thanks for the bump!
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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,796
    Please post a selling price.
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    Excuse my ignorance, but is this the same Advent from the 70s. Just curious. GLWTS.
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  • vmaxer
    vmaxer Posts: 5,120
    Thanking yourself for bumps??
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  • daboyz
    daboyz Posts: 5,207
    Free bump
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  • Gempler
    Gempler Posts: 308
    Purchased new from Tech HiFi in 1978.
    Have the original receipt and manuals.
    $200.
    Thanks!
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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,796
    $200 then or $200 now?
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  • Gempler
    Gempler Posts: 308
    Yes.
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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,796
    PM me with some pictures, please.
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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,796
    I need pics!
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  • classic carl
    classic carl Posts: 661
    edited March 2017
    Where is local? Have these been recapped?
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,927
    edited March 2017
    classic carl wrote: »
    Where is local?
    man, that's heavy for early on a Saturday morning ;)
    Yes, Advent is Advent. Heny Kloss's post AR, post KLH venture, geared mostly at developing and marketing a 'big screen' projection TV. Advent also introduced one of the first "truly [relatively speaking] hifi" cassette decks with Dolby NR, the Advent 201. The original 201 had an OEM transport (maybe electronics, too?) made by Nakamichi and were, apparently, very unreliable. Advent switched to a Wollensak transport and those decks sort of springboarded the whole "hifi cassette recorder" era.

    The Original Large Advents were extremely popular especially in the Northeast in the early to mid 1970s. They have a pretty typical "New England sound" and benefit greatly from replacement of the crossover capacitors.


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  • motorhead43026
    motorhead43026 Posts: 4,006
    edited March 2017
    My first brand new pair of speakers were Advents purchased in 1977 or 78. The large Advents in the cheaper cabinet, not beveled. Wonderful speaker at the time.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,927
    edited March 2017
    motorhead43026 wrote: »
    My first brand new pair of speakers were Advents purchased in 1977 or 78. The large Advents in the cheaper cabinet, not beveled. Wonderful speaker at the time.

    Known in the parlance as "[Original] Utility Advents". There're a pair in the basement waiting for me to refoam them, truth be told.


    There's a pretty good omnibus thread @ audiokarma to help identify the nigh-on stupefying array of almost-the-same-but-not-quite Advent models over the years and ownerships of the brand name:
    http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/index.php?threads/identifying-your-advent-loudspeakers.126376/
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  • motorhead43026
    motorhead43026 Posts: 4,006
    Yep, that is them the utility model.
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    Back in the 70s my sister wanted a good stereo so I told her to buy a HK receiver, AR turntable, Shure cartridge, and Advent speakers. In those days Radio Shack ICs and speaker wire were used. Anyways, it sounded great.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,883
    And a bump... someone needs to jump on these.
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,499
    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    And a bump... someone needs to jump on these.

    Would that make them sound better?
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  • VjMac3
    VjMac3 Posts: 6
    I'm interested sir
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