Wonderful Gift Idea
George Grand
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A gentleman from another forum who enjoys contributing to Project X by purchasing vinyl, has sent me a great gift. A beautiful looking and operating Advent 300 receiver. I have wanted one of these forever. Pretty anemic at 15wpc, it is the preamp, tuner, and phono stages that are nifty. It has Pre-Outs and Main-Ins so you can mess around with it and other amps. I got a 30wpc NAD power amp around here someplace that will probably be a killer little rig with a small, acoustic-suspension bookshelf. I think this thing may have been designed by the THX guy, Tom Holman. I have another one of his preamps, the APT "Holman" preamp, and I like it a lot.
I am very happy for myself.
I am very happy for myself.
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I remember that reciever and people talking about just using the preamp and tuner like you will.
Nice little gift. Was it gift wrapped? -
George Grand wrote: »A gentleman from another forum who enjoys contributing to Project X by purchasing vinyl, has sent me a great gift. A beautiful looking and operating Advent 300 receiver. I have wanted one of these forever. Pretty anemic at 15wpc, it is the preamp, tuner, and phono stages that are nifty. It has Pre-Outs and Main-Ins so you can mess around with it and other amps. I got a 30wpc NAD power amp around here someplace that will probably be a killer little rig with a small, acoustic-suspension bookshelf. I think this thing may have been designed by the THX guy, Tom Holman. I have another one of his preamps, the APT "Holman" preamp, and I like it a lot.
I am very happy for myself.
I had one once too. Very nice phono section. I had just been given a Dennon TT with a Klipsch moving coil cart/ruby cantilever/Ortofon stepup x-former. I plugged that in as a source and went preout to a Citation V that drove little Harbeth HLP-3's on filled celestion stands (which I paid $275 for the pair and stands). The Advent and Citation V were $300 from High Tech (now Sound Images) I later got a sub....can't remember the name but it was a Sweedish(Audio Source?) sealed box with two small non visible drivers and a DIN input I needed an RCA adapter to utilize. Excellent small room setup with the Advent at the heart of it.
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System: MF Trivista SACD > Placette passive> CJ passive horizontal bi-amp> MF 2500A(LF) MF2100(HF) > 1.2TL's
Other: Speltz silver Eichmann IC's & speaker wire, Econotweaks Detail Magnifiers, PS Audio P-300(source), R. Gray 600, Al Sekala's AC R/C filters, R. Gray HT PC's, Oyaide R-1's,WPC-Z , M-1, Herbie's & DIY Isolation
Room: Qty 7 - 4' tall 18" diam. bass traps, Qty 4 - 4' X 2' X 4" panels. All DIY - man my wife is tolerant! -
Bubble wrapped.
Other recent acquisitions include gorgeous Dynaco A-25, AR-28, JBL HLS-810, Fried Q3, AR-302, AR-338, and the creme, a pair of ADS L1290. The ADS also came with a big, Honkyo TX-7000 receiver that I busted a nut lifting. I also grabbed another pair of Magnavox from the 60's with horns and 10" acoustic suspension woofers, but sold both pair of those yesterday. The JBL's have horns in them too! I hate them!
If I still had some Advent speakers in-house, I could make an all original Advent rig, using the cassette deck for a front end. I sold the last pair of Advents I had around a year ago, a pair of New Advent. Those were in Stephie's bedroom but I got a pair of AR-302 to stick in there, and the Advents got the heave. -
George Grand wrote: »Bubble wrapped.
Other recent acquisitions include gorgeous Dynaco A-25, AR-28, JBL HLS-810, Fried Q3, AR-302, AR-338, and the creme, a pair of ADS L1290. The ADS also came with a big, Honkyo TX-7000 receiver that I busted a nut lifting. I also grabbed another pair of Magnavox from the 60's with horns and 10" acoustic suspension woofers, but sold both pair of those yesterday. The JBL's have horns in them too! I hate them!
If I still had some Advent speakers in-house, I could make an all original Advent rig, using the cassette deck for a front end. I sold the last pair of Advents I had around a year ago, a pair of New Advent. Those were in Stephie's bedroom but I got a pair of AR-302 to stick in there, and the Advents got the heave.
JHC, George! Sounds like you've had more speakers pass through your hands this week then I've had in my life. Those AR-25's are pretty fun, a good friend of mine lucked out when his uncle gave him a pair. I'm all highed up on lacquer building a pair of speaker stands for him to use with them right now.Wristwatch--->Crisco -
The Dynaco are nice, real nice, but they don't go down where the other popular (around here) 10" woofers go. The little brother, the A-10 is worth trying to find. I had a pair that worked fine but the cabs were pretty tore up. Same tweeter with a 6 or 6 1/2" woofer and that aperiodic slot loading.
It's been over the last month or so, not a week. The Magnavox leaving helped. I have a couple pair of big Infinity that are taking up space that is more valuable to me than the speakers are at this point.
