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


It was actually my second "real" system...but it is simply historic how many people that love great audio systems and the music they allowed us to enjoy started or at one time owned the original Large Advents.  If there is to be a list of the most influential audio products of all time, the Large Advent would be at or near the top.  I guess another interesting question would be how many sets of these Large Advents are still in use.  My brother in law and my sister still have a set of Small Advents in use in their den. 
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I had KLH....don't  remember the sound, but they bought me many hours of music discovery
I had several friends with the Advents which I remember to be warm and very listen-able.   I started with AR-11s, which were a little more powerful and had a good tight bottom end.
Speaking of RTR, first, in 1971, senior year in HS, my very first system apart from a little JVC console type thing for a young teenager, featured, actually, Marantz speakers, which were large stand-mount and two way. This was prior to the sale of the company. I just loved these speakers. Upstream were a legendary Marantz 1060 integrated and a Lenco manual giving a hitch to a Grado elliptical. I saw and heard Large Advents often, and did not feel that they bested my Marantz's by much as configured by me.  This system sounded impressive when I compared it to what I heard at frequent concerts. In the very early 70's, my hometown featured one of the nation's leading concert venues, where I was usually in attendance. But the next speakers, floor standers used with separate cabinets containing RTR electrostatic drivers, were breathtaking, mine had 6 RTR membranes, which one simply placed on the top of the floor mounted cabinet, which contained conventional drivers -- these were three-ways, called HPR 12s. With the RTR augmentation, they truly were glorious, it was was if one had very little Infinity Servo-Statik's. These came to university with me, where they were driven by Heathkit and the famous Philips table -- this is 1973 -- with the green-lit, touch-type, switch gear. When the audiophile journey genuinely took flight years later, Avalon Radians were the culmination of the speaker search, these were driven by ML 33H's, an ARC Ref 1, tubed ARC phono-stage, and an Aries with a JMW hosting an Urushi.  Sound always was OMG; cavernous soundstage, imperceptible distortion so deep black noise floor, owing to uber-expensive but virtually donated to me, tri-wire networked MIT speaker cable created for the Radians & Spectral amplification. One dearly loved demo album on this system that everyone should search for given the extraordinary sound and I'd argue fairly good songwriting in some instances, don't laugh, was Gino Vanelli's Storm at Sunup. This album sounds incredible, Graham Lear on the drums.     
I did, these were first real speakers sadly I lost them in transit when I moved for a job from New Jersey to London .U.K in the 70 ‘ 
Wow, that brings back memories!  Just got my commission in the Air Force and started my first assignment at Kelly AFB.  I went to a “Christmas In July”sale at the BX and there they were in glorious pecan.  My first good speakers.   Had them for many years until I moved overseas and faced a weight limit...