The Advent was my first serious speaker system, inspired by the Stereophile review and embellished by the literature supplied by Mr. Henry Kloss, containing such classic phrases as 'Hoffman's Iron Law' and 'The shortest distance between two points is a straight line, or the line that's the straightest under the circumstances.' Large Advent Speaker Serial Numbers FREE DOMESTIC SHIPPING Here is another one of a kind radio design This Abbotwares Horse with.
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The Advent - Large Stereo Hi-FI Loudspeakers
'The Large Advents'
'Bullnose'genuineWalnut all-wood Cabinet. 'Fried egg' tweeters.
Theseare the highly desirable early large model / serial numbers / all wood cabinet(not veneer).
Fullyserviced and re-foamed by Professional Technical Services in Toledo, Ohio.
1970'sVintage 2-way ultra high fidelity / studio quality. These speakers arelegendary - and this pair are in unbelievable fine condition. Peak power120-watts per channel.
SerialNumbers: 481931 and 481939
#2 on The Top Ten Most Influential Speakers of all time!
by Audioholics Magazine
No. 2:The AdventsHenryKloss was quite the figure in the American speaker business in the 1950s–1960s.After he left KLH, he went on to found Advent Corporation because he wanted tomanufacture and market large-screen two-piece television projection systems. Inorder to produce the cash flow needed for that undertaking, however, he decidedto make and sell speakers under the Advent name. This virtual “afterthought” wenton to become perhaps the most successful speaker brand of the early-mid 1970s,during the very height of the huge Baby Boom generation college populationexplosion.
Withtypical Kloss directness of purpose, he came out with just two models, simplycalled the Advent Loudspeaker and the Smaller Advent Loudspeaker. Both were 10”2-way sealed speakers, using in-house designed and built drivers. They differedmainly in size (the “Large” Advent was a full-sized bookshelf speaker, like theAR-3 or KLH Five); the Smaller Advent was a bit larger and more expensive thanthe AR-4x, but still much trimmer than the larger Advent. Kloss took the“dealer-as-partner” marketing strategy that he initiated when he was at KLH (hewas the “K”) to new heights with Advent. Advent dealers presented and soldtheir speakers with an almost fanatical, religious zeal. The Advents themselveswere certainly worthy of their success, great-sounding speakers that hadextraordinary bass response—especially considering their modest price—andrepresented terrific performance-to-price values. The Advents could be said tohave spearheaded the explosion of stereo’s popular jump from the hobbyist-onlymarket of the middle-aged “GE engineer living in Suburbia” during the mid-1960sto the 10-fold market increase of the Baby Boomer college kid/dorm roomexperience of the 1970s.
Advent speakers mainstreamed stereo to the masses.
As abonus to the amazing role Advent played in transforming stereo from a 1960sDad-only hobby to its 1970s mainstream popularity, somehow the idea of twospeakers per channel “stacked Large Advents” as a tower, driven as if they wereone speaker—achieved legendary audiophile status in the 1970s as well. All thehigh-end magazines accorded Stacked Advents some kind of mythical quality thatcouldn’t be explained by “the numbers” or even by Advent’s design personnel.This only added to the Advent lore of the 1970s, a brand reputation and story exceededby few, if any, products in any field.
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This item is sold As-Described and cannot be returned unless it arrives in a condition different from how it was described or photographed. Items must be returned in original, as-shipped condition with all original packaging.Product Specs
Condition | Excellent items are almost entirely free from blemishes and other visual defects and have been played or used with the utmost care.learn more |
Brand | Advent |
Model | Large Loudspeaker |
Finish | Walnut |
Categories | Floor Speakers |
Year | 1970s |
Made In | United States |
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