Usless but interesting ....how many of you old timers started with original Large Advents?

From my first speakers, Fisher 3 way 12", I switched to large wooden Advents, then bought a second set for my Fisher quad receiver.  Soon, I had a Crown preampand Phase Linear 400 on these stacked Advents.  The wood ones do sound a bit better. For decades I wondered why, until B&W did a lot of laser imaging.  The bezels deflect the driver's backward motion sound away from the push signal.  Eventually, I got early B&W's, the ones with the KEF ovalish woofer (Used to keep the cabinet narrow to minimuze the value added tax), along with a Celestion mid tweet and a Coles supertweeter.  Next were the B&W DM 14's, eventually stacked. Later I added Acoustats for the sweet Electrostatic mids, and kept them for 25 years, along with the four 14's.  They were sold when I got my 803's. My telly uses 2 of the 14's on the original stands. 

The Advents are exceptional in our history, but their predecessor, the Acoustic Research AR series (1-7), had the greatest impact.  With their newly invented sealed woofer, followed by their newly invented dome mids and tweets, they revolutionized audio, holding around 33% market share of all hi-fi speakers sold in the US. These were 1/8th the size of comparible speakers and sounded better for much less money.  The new transistorized electronics made the system affordable.   For you relative newbies,  Professor Ed Vilchur, who invented these things, as well as the three point base turntable (which became the Aristoon and Linn Sondek),  partnered with speaker cabinet maker Henry Kloss, who was later the K in KLH, before founding Advent, and later, Cambridge Audio.  Advent is certainly a big part of this revolution, being even more affordable than AR and KLH.  Also of interest, Advents only existed to fund Kloss' development of his large screen, projection televisions.  The dual diaphram, mid tweet used in the Advent was  copied and presumably improved by Thiel.