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What do you all think of these? I have the opportunity to get these for $20 locally. Said to spec at 60-17 +-1.5dB. Would really only be getting them to play with for awhile. Have a vintage receiver and tape deck to run them with.
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Will probably pick them up if they are still there tomorrow.Have an HK 230A which is 18w I believe; and also an old Nikko receiver of unknown wattage. Will be interesting to see how it sounds. I assume it will sound best with period source material.
Ought to sound fine with any clean source material. My Advents and JBL's do and I'm 100% CD based.
Here's the Marantz Imperial 6 story.
He's got the Advent data all screwed up. Advents came out in 1970. Further, the total diameter of the tweeter is only about 1 7/8". It's paper, not cloth, the center dome does most of the radiating above 3-4 kHz and it's 7/8" diameter, and the crossover is at 1 kHz not 1800 Hz. The half roll surround around the center dome is 1/2" wide, not 1" and it doesn't radiate much at higher frequencies. (I wonder if he has it confused with the EPI)As to the peaks and dips he measured, that's because he measured on the tweeter axis or at the cabinet center at their 1 meter microphone position. That gives very poor results on an Advent because of the driver phasing and positions in the front to back direction. In the far field, you can't find the crossover region.
Actually, the Advents shown in the article look like Advent/1's rather than the orginal Large Advents.Whatever, the guy who wrote the article *liked* the Advents.
Yes, this is were I got the specs. It seems like it should be a good speaker.
Those were very nice speakers in their day. Probably still sound pretty darn good. For $20, it's a steal. Rather Advent-like in sound. Good bass, quite accurate. Nice and smooth.They work very well with any decent solid state amp or receiver.
Pretty good speakers for $20!
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