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Wow! The Holman MM phono section of the Advent 300 is as good as I recalled.

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Posted on January 29, 2015 at 05:28:15
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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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RE: Wow! The Holman MM phono section of the Advent 300 is as good as I recalled. , posted on January 29, 2015 at 08:54:45
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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.

 

RE: Wow! The Holman MM phono section of the Advent 300 is as good as I recalled. , posted on January 29, 2015 at 09:09:23
mbnx01
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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.





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RE: Wow! The Holman MM phono section of the Advent 300 is as good as I recalled. , posted on January 29, 2015 at 09:09:38
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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.......

 

Not really an upgrade. Just recapping with same values and new diodes., posted on January 29, 2015 at 09:15:34
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 rebiasing the outputs and aligning the tuner.





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Had a 3020 back in the day, as well as a 300, purchased new in 1979., posted on January 29, 2015 at 09:30:19
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 The NAD has a good phono section, but a notch or two below the Advent, IMHO.





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No rattles, everything tight and it sounds great. /nt\, posted on January 29, 2015 at 09:34:00
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RE: Oh-oh! The Next Big (VA) Thing!, posted on January 29, 2015 at 09:36:50
amioutaline?
 That calls for a celebration!

 

RE: Wow! The Holman MM phono section of the Advent 300 is as good as I recalled. , posted on January 29, 2015 at 09:40:58
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 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

 

Mine sits in my basement vintage system, posted on January 29, 2015 at 11:42:51
teenage diplomat
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 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.

 

Speaking of which..., posted on January 29, 2015 at 12:02:15
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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...




 

RE: Wow! The Holman MM phono section of the Advent 300 is as good as I recalled. , posted on January 29, 2015 at 14:52:40
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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.

 

When I had mine, posted on January 30, 2015 at 18:04:11
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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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Wow! as good as I recalled. ., posted on January 31, 2015 at 13:10:19
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 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

 

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