Help Please With Vintage Amp Selection

Wharfedale Super Lintons

Vintage product, restore, Legacy Idea or New, current production Inspired by Legacy? You have a lot of options.

Those Littons or the Super Littons are current production, with 8" woofers, and nicely include stands.

the AR-2ax have 10" woofers, the AR-3 and AR-3a have 12" woofers. Here in my office (I especially like that they are 3 ways that fit in a bookcase) and down below in my garage, I am quite happy with the 10" woofers, more active listening I would probably go larger.

I owned AR-2ax’s when in college in the late 60’s, they were stolen, always missed them. Then a thread here inspired me to get/restore a pair for nostalgic reasons, to use when working in my garage.

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/is-there-any-one-piece-of-vintage-gear-you-most-wished-you-owned

damn things sounded so good, I preferred them to the Wharfedale 225s I was using here, did the 2nd pair for downstairs, gave the smaller Wharfedales to my son.

Thanks I'm for that suggestion. I have thought of new speakers to go with my vintage amp. Have thought hard about the Wharfedale Lintons.

Perhaps change to some Vintage Speakers that are a bit more efficient, that would keep the power needs lower so you can continue to use Yamaha for power.

It seems you like Yamaha, I only ever had 1 Yamaha piece, my CR-1040 Receiver, 80wpc, it sure is a winner, it replaced my Tandberg 2080. I use it for my Garage/Shop system, driving two pairs of speakers.

They made a CR-2040, 120 wpc, it’s a beauty IMO, and the rarer CR-3020.

I restored two pairs of 3 way AR-2ax Speakers, the 1st sounded so good, I use them in my office system, then I did a second pair to use with the Yamaha Receiver.

AR-2ax Refurb

I never heard them except in a store, but the AR-3 was highly respected.

I have to believe you would like the sound of 90db 1w/1m AR-2ax or AR-3, either is easier to drive than your Advent Large 2 way 86db

In the photo is the Chase RLC-1, I use it via the Yamaha’s adapter loop to get remote volume and remote mute for Vintage equipment with no remote features.

Elrod, thanks. I'll research that one.

Have you considered a MOSFET Yamaha MX-2000? beautiful looking and from what I'm told a beautiful sounding amp. There is also a CX-2000 preamp

I've had both the Yamaha B-1 and the B-2 and they are fantastic amps. But you're right - the only VFETS come from another amp.

Even if you can find VFETS, you have to find out WHY they went bad - the main reason VFETS usually fail is when the protection circuit fails. So then your left with trying to find a competent tech you feel comfortable with to trouble shoot and repair.

That for the reply. That might be the problem then. The CA 1000 is only 70 ier side. I can get a Yamaha Pro in good shape and it's 240 per side. Would you find that a good choice? I'd need a pre amp too of course.

I am assuming you want to keep those Advent Large 2 way speakers. I found a link that indicated they are only 86db 1w/1m

I would want more than your current 70 wpc, so I would not overhaul the existing, rather pick something with more power, and that can be bridged, get a 2nd unit if I wanted even more in the future.

Check the specs, when bridging, often impedance choices become limited.