Are you talking about? Buy the refoam kit from Rolf, I do.
Great price and great service! Btw, I'm now restoring my 3rd pair of New Large Advents. With modern capacitors of tighter tolerances and better resistors, fiberglass, refoam.these things restored are no laughing joke. They like to be paired with a clean powerful amp, such as a NAD. I tell people how old they are & how much money I spent on restoring them and I watch their jaws drop once the music starts playing.
'That's the East Coast, Henry Kloss, acoustic suspension bass you're hearing', I tell them. Sushimaster. Are you talking about? Buy the refoam kit from Rolf, I do.
Great price and great service! Btw, I'm now restoring my 3rd pair of New Large Advents. With modern capacitors of tighter tolerances and better resistors, fiberglass, refoam.these things restored are no laughing joke. They like to be paired with a clean powerful amp, such as a NAD. I tell people how old they are & how much money I spent on restoring them and I watch their jaws drop once the music starts playing.
'That's the East Coast, Henry Kloss, acoustic suspension bass you're hearing', I tell them. Sushimaster. Click to expand.There are pairs of tweeters for the Advent 1 almost continuously on eBay.
They are the same tweeters as for the New Advents with the orange diapragm like the originals but with an all-metal backing plate (no masonite square). Advent used the same drivers in the New Advent Loudspeaker and the Advent 1 Loudspeaker. The Advent 1 just has a smaller box. This is unlike the original Advent Loudspeaker and the Smaller Advent Loudspeaker where each had their own dedicated (at first) drivers. Jerry, has the same tweeter as that of the New Large Advent.
It's basically a smaller, less expensive version of the New Large Advents. Tweeters pop up on eBay every now and then and fetch around $30-$40/pair depending on cosmetic condition, ect. The Advent/1 is a new speaker system that replaces the Smaller Advent. It is a redefinition of just how close we can come to the performance of our flagship speaker system in a smaller, less expensive speaker. The Advent/1 has 2 1/2 dB less response at 30 Hz than its bigger brother. That is the only difference worth quantifying. Its overall sound is as close to the New Advent’s as any speaker can come to another.
Its power-handling capabilities are the same, and its efficiency is high enough to allow it to be well driven by low-power amplifiers and receivers. We feel that the performance-per-dollar (and per-cubic-foot) of the Advent/1 is unsurpassed by anything we or anyone else can offer in a speaker. Sushimaster. I have to take a different road here. I restored (x overs) and refoamed two pairs of Original Advents, and when finished they looked and sounded like new.
BUT.I could'nt stand the sound of them! The bass is for lack of a better word 'Wooly'. Its somewhat scratchy, indistinct and booms on certain things. It is NOT the tight, controlled bass that I'm used to hearing from good speakers.
The highs were many times harsh and shrill, and even piercing. As a DIY project, it was fun, But as a speaker I could not listen to them for more than 5 minutes.
Advent Loudspeaker Serial Number
I gave them to a friend who lives next door. Food for thought before you invest time and money into these.do you really want to be stuck with a speaker that you may end up hating? First off, I will have my g/f take a few pictures of the speakers. I will admit I'm not all that up on the lingo of speaker parts etc. One speakers foam has 3 good sized cracks in it.
I'm sure that the right thing to do is replace BOTH foams. The speaker cabinet size is 22' tall by 13 1/4' wide by 9 1/4' deep. The tweeter is not positioned exactly like the one pictured on the Stereophile link. I measured the foam on the one speaker from the outside edge and the diameter is 9'. I'm assuming the raised portion is the foam. As far as who I will buy the foam kit from, well OF COURSE I will buy from here on Steve Hoffman. Why buy from a stranger on E Bay?
I cleaned off the cabinents with some cheesy furniture polish and they look really nice. The ID on the back says Advent/1. Serial numbers are HH 107011 and HH 107023. One was inspected by JG. The other is hard to decipher. I'll try to get pictures uploaded by tonight. Thanks for all the help from everyone so far.
Click to expand.That's unfortunate. I've had the exact opposite results with my 5002's (basically an update of the Large Advent with a silk dome tweeter). The bass is always in the pocket, nice and punchy without ever booming in the least. The highs are clear as day, but never too bright.
DSOTM was the first thing I played on them. During the guitar solo in 'Time' I had always been accustomed to hearing some harshness in the upper register on cheaper speakers, but the Advents presented a perfectly detailed, natural sound with plenty of room for rockin'. They are certainly not high-end, but I consider them my 'gateway' speakers. They got me hooked! I have to take a different road here.
I restored (x overs) and refoamed two pairs of Original Advents, and when finished they looked and sounded like new. BUT.I could'nt stand the sound of them! The bass is for lack of a better word 'Wooly'. Its somewhat scratchy, indistinct and booms on certain things. It is NOT the tight, controlled bass that I'm used to hearing from good speakers. The highs were many times harsh and shrill, and even piercing.
As a DIY project, it was fun, But as a speaker I could not listen to them for more than 5 minutes. I gave them to a friend who lives next door. Food for thought before you invest time and money into these.do you really want to be stuck with a speaker that you may end up hating? In answer to Jerry's other question about whether the Advent/1 and the Large Advent are the same speaker, no they are not.
In fact, there never was an Advent called 'The Large Advent Loudspeaker.' Advent never used the word 'large' in any of their model names. This adjective was cooked up later to differentiate between the Smaller Advent and the original 'Advent Loudspeaker.'
The first speaker Advent made was 'The Advent Loudspeaker.' It was available in a walnut veneer model and a utility model covered with vinyl. These have the masonite-ringed woofer and fried egg tweeter set out from the baffle on a masonite square. Then they produced 'The Smaller Advent Loudspeaker' which had the famous 'spitball' dust cover on the woofer.
Large Advent Speakers
This was added to increase the mass of the cone to bring the resonance down to where Kloss wanted it for the same bass extension as the original Advents. The tweeters were basically the same as the larger model but with a smaller magnet structure to match the efficiency to the woofer. In 1978, 'The New Advent Loudspeaker' replaced the original 'Advent Loudspeaker' being pretty much the same size but with slightly different drivers and having the woofer moved up to about the center of the cabinet.
Advent Speaker Serial Numbers
The tweeter was still the fried egg design but mounted flush on a metal backing plate instead of on a masonite square and then on a metal plate. At the same time, the 'Smaller Advent' was replaced by 'The Advent/1' which used the same drivers as 'The New Advent Loudspeaker' but in a smaller cabinet. In the first releases, the bass extension of the smaller version was NOT compromised but the efficiency was. In the second releases, the bass extension of the smaller version WAS compromised but the efficiency was not.
Cool - I've toyed with nearly the exact setup. I salvaged a pair of original large Advents (OLAs) and refoamed them. I have a Pioneer 6500II amp and an assortment of CD players and turntables. I really like the sound and punchiness of the OLAs, even with the little amp.
The 6500II is a 35 wpc amp while the 6500 is 25 wpc, I believe. Even so, it does the speakers and my ears well. I don't know anything about the ARs, but you can't go wrong with OLAs. I think they're a speaker everyone should play with at least once in their hoarding, er, collecting.
And if they have green tweeters, grab them - they're rarer. Lots of info on all of this on AK.