![]() ![]() The fact that Harry experienced increasingly 'improved' sound going from 60 watts, to 150 watts, to 300 watts per channel when listening to music tells me that he was routinely clipping the lower powered amps, and that is what he was attributing to the different amplifier's sonic quality. And Harry thinking that the speaker could handle 100 watts of continuous power! Why would he put something that ignorant in print? Did he really think that? Who knows? I smiled at Andrew Pettit (not Petite for crying out loud) calling Pearson's rag a 'cultist' magazine. ![]() ![]() They didn't cost that much compared to a lot of speakers that sounded worse. I owned Advents (almost everyone did back then) which I thought were 'smooth' sounding speakers, more open and less boxy than the competing AR and KLH. Gordon Holt was a big fan, but realistically he didn't have much of an audience back then. I think that fact alone sold a lot of them. LARGE ADVENT SPEAKER CROSSOVER PLUSThat is, you could typically get a considerable MSRP discount if you bought their pre/amp/tuner kits plus speakers, together as a package. Cosmetically much rougher than nigh-on 40 years ago, but they still work fine.Īt today's prices for a pair, though - yeah, you can do better.ĭyna loudspeakers were not bad in context, and could be sourced as part of a 'package deal' from Dynaco dealers. My aforementioned parents put a lot of miles on them over the years. Pointless, egocentric aside: I bought my parents a used pair in the early '80s (in as-new condition) for 75 bucks at Gramophone in Baltimore, MD after giving them a good listening-to. The SEAS (or were they ScanSpeak?! too lazy to check, sorry!*) rubber surround, AlNiCo magnet 10" woofer and dome tweeter were a good cut above the kind of thing one would find in most other sub-hundred buck loudspeakers of their era.įor their (very modest) cost when new, they were hard, perhaps impossible, to beat in their time. ![]()
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