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Spinning a little AWB. 15 wpc drives my efficient JBLs just fine. She'll go off to Ohio down the road for a cap/diode upgrade and rebiasing/tuner recalibration.Luckily, the previous owner had just cleaned all the switches and pots with Deox-It. No noise nasties from any of them. Also nice to have a mono switch and headphone jack again.
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it was with a Denon DPO25 w/ the Klipsch moving coil/ruby cantilever cart, Ortofon step up, the Advent which ran the HF and a Citation V for LF on Harbeth HLP-3's with an Audio Source sub. Nice apartment system.
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I'm quite interested to hear how the work turns out as I have one ( I'm the original owner) that needs a refurb as well. Back in my younger (bachelor pad) days I used it with Double Advent speakers and two Carver cubes. Later, it was wonderful on its own in more intimate settings. That phono section is a sweetie pie.
where I use it as a phono section feeding the signal from my Tubesforever-modded SP25/grace 707/Shure V15RS to a refurbed Fisher 500C. Speakers are fully restored AR3as. It's a time machine - transports me back to my misspent youth. There just is something different and satisfying about vintage sound. No, it doesn't "sound as good" as my big rig upstairs, (no real depth, soundstage, etc.) but I certainly could live with it if push came to shove.
I used to own the APT Holman preamp with phono stage back in the early 90's. Like you, I had heard the same results as it wasn't as transparent as the other preamp that I have the SUMO Athena.
But, it was part of my learning experience...
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well
(Proverb)
My first "real" system used the Advent 300 as the front end. Quatre power amp and DCM Time Windows. TT was a Rabco ST-4 (?) with Ortofon MC cartridge and a Marshall Leach DIY head amp. I have good memories of that system.
"It is better to remain silent and thought a fool, then speak and remove all doubt." A. Lincoln
nice system, that. i used the nad 3020 as my front end with a spectro-acoustics 100wpc amp, modified arm rabco ST4 (reduced mass)with XLM or grado F1+ (a great cart but not quite as great as the XLM) with infinity monitor JRs. there were other permutations of that system as well.
i recommended the Leach pramp from the plans in AUDIO magazine to a friend. he built it and has raved ever since and still uses it in a great system.
...regards...tr
That calls for a celebration!
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I am not a audio purist by any means but, are you sure you want to upgrade a already legendary integrated? Personally, I would enjoy it as is.......
rebiasing the outputs and aligning the tuner.
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No surprise. The phono section was the design priority of the better pre-amps, integrateds and receivers of that era. The humble little NAD 3020 had a great phono section as I remember.
The NAD has a good phono section, but a notch or two below the Advent, IMHO.
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The 300 was a great sounding little unit. But construction quality (Mexico) was sh*t.
We used to shake the boxes when we sold one to find one that didn't have any loose parts rattling around inside.
But if you got a good one it was a fantastic little unit.
"We are all in God's hands... and God is a malign thug."
-Mark Twain
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