Frank Braswell

after watching the video and your comments you have answered my question about the purpose of the masonite ring on the OLA woofer. now i feel confident about doing this myself. thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Hi, I'm new to the group and thank's for allowing me to join. I'm a long time advent speaker fan. I have been fortunate enough to listen to the vast majority of analog equipment over the past 40 yrs. and that includes the majority if not all speaker brands. I have owned my fare share of analog equipment and speakers. I haven't owned any advents since the late 70's early 80's. recently I picked up a pair of OLA's with the beveled cabinets and restored them cosmetically the drivers are oem and needed nothing, the previous owner had refoamed the woofers correctly. they sound just like I remember not complicated fairly neutral and warm with good bass. not many speakers can do this at this price. I pick up a second pair of NLA's with the walnut bullnose cabinets. I personally like the OLA's better but they are both great sounding speakers. for a two way speaker they kick a**. I run the pair stacked powered by a JVC jrs-501 in my mancave (garage). sometimes I play them fairly loud and they bring a smile to anyone who hears them even my wife. she's a klipsch fan. haven't had any issues with impedance differences. the bass response is impressive when you stack them. i'll just leave them alone maybe hard wire them to eliminate the connectors. my only question for the folks in the know is what is the purpose for the masonite around the woofers and tweeters on the OLA's

Just replaced the grill cloth on my OLA's got the material from midwestspeaker they match the original cloth very well

thanks for the info I have plenty of power to push both sets

Hello my name is Frank I purchased a set of OLA's back in the seventies while serving in the US Navy had the for several years and sold them. recently I was lucky to find a set of beveled walnut with the masonite woofers and tweeters, refurbished the grills an cabinets. I found another set locally with the bull nose cabinets. they sound identical, I stacked them both upright and the sound is amazing, this set up blew away my cerwin vega AT15s the bass is tight and plentyfull any one thinking of doing this don't hesitate you will be pleased.