Advent Selected for TAS List of "Most Significant Speakers"

[pgaron]

"The Absolute Sound" (TAS) magazine recently published an article listing their picks for the 12 most significant loudspeakers of all time, and the Large Advent Speaker shows up in the number 10 spot. See:

http://www.avguide.com/review/the-12-most-...05?src=Playback

BTW: The tweeter in the Advent shown in the picture doesn't look anything like the one on my Large Advent speakers.

Cheers,

pgaron

[Carlspeak]

mistake, see next post

[Carlspeak]

"The Absolute Sound" (TAS) magazine recently published an article listing their picks for the 12 most significant loudspeakers of all time, and the Large Advent Speaker shows up in the number 10 spot"

As was the AR3a.

http://www.classicspeakerpages.net/IP.Boar...?showtopic=6030

For more info on that strange looking Advent shown in the AS article you referenced , visit audiokarma.org's speaker forum Advent reference thread. It shows all of the Advent models including the one pictured in your link. Evidently it was cheaply built and dubbed the 'poor man's Advent'....

[Steve F]

"The Absolute Sound" (TAS) magazine recently published an article listing their picks for the 12 most significant loudspeakers of all time, and the Large Advent Speaker shows up in the number 10 spot"

As was the AR3a.

http://www.classicspeakerpages.net/IP.Boar...?showtopic=6030

For more info on that strange looking Advent shown in the AS article you referenced , visit audiokarma.org's speaker forum Advent reference thread. It shows all of the Advent models including the one pictured in your link. Evidently it was cheaply built and dubbed the 'poor man's Advent'....

TAS showed the Advent/2, when they meant to show the Large Advent. An amazing glitch by TAS in an historical round-up article--they couldn't even correctly picture the product they were referring to.

The /2 was a perfectly fine loudspeaker, as good quality as any other Advent of that generation, so why the AK author refers to it as 'cheaply built' is a mystery to me. The /2 was Advent's only multi-tweeter product and was certainly interesting for that reason alone.

It had a retail price of $58 ea, and a system resonance of 58 Hz--commendably low for a compact speaker. The BAS in its write-up on the speaker humorously said it was $1 per Hz!

I'd love to know why Advent went the multi-tweeter route on this product alone, when that wasn't their style, before or after.

Steve F.