Advent Laureate at the Goodwill.

Ike Bana · #1 03-26-2014, 04:33 PM

The blonde just called home from the Goodwill. They have a pair of Advent Laureate's. She says the boxes look in decent shape with undamaged grilles. All four woofers need a re-foam. $6.99 a box. She thought they were "pretty". I did a google and they are definitely "pretty".

But I have a basement full of speakers (including Advent large, smaller and 3's) and I decided to let it go. Am I nuts?

one1 · #2 03-26-2014, 04:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Ike Bana

The blonde just called home from the Goodwill. They have a pair of Advent Laureate's. She says the boxes look in decent shape with undamaged grilles. All four woofers need a re-foam. $6.99 a box. She thought they were "pretty". I did a google and they are definitely "pretty".

But I have a basement full of speakers (including Advent large, smaller and 3's) and I decided to let it go. Am I nuts?

You shoulda at least got two of them @14 bucks you cant go wrong.But I have a sneaking suspention they will be in your home by morning.like they say Resistance is futile.now get your ass down there and get them darn speeks.

one1 · #3 03-26-2014, 04:44 PM

Is it just me or does my spelling suck,in general.I just saw that,DAMN

bobabode · #4 03-26-2014, 04:46 PM

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Originally Posted by one1

Is it just me or does my spelling suck,in general.I just saw that,DAMN

I can understand it.

bobabode · #5 03-26-2014, 04:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Ike Bana

The blonde just called home from the Goodwill. They have a pair of Advent Laureate's. She says the boxes look in decent shape with undamaged grilles. All four woofers need a re-foam. $6.99 a box. She thought they were "pretty". I did a google and they are definitely "pretty".

But I have a basement full of speakers (including Advent large, smaller and 3's) and I decided to let it go. Am I nuts?

I'm an enabler, don't ask me. You know what I'll say.

The blonde likes 'em, 'nuff said.

donquixote99 · #6 03-26-2014, 04:51 PM

one1, I read your post without noticing any errors.

Fix up the Advents, Ike, just as good as you can. You'll enjoy doing it, and you may find you like 'em better than something else you've got. If not, then you trade or sell or give them away. That's how the gear hobby works.

Ike Bana · #7 03-26-2014, 06:11 PM

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one1, I read your post without noticing any errors.

Fix up the Advents, Ike, just as good as you can. You'll enjoy doing it, and you may find you like 'em better than something else you've got. If not, then you trade or sell or give them away. That's how the gear hobby works.

Well...I have an extensive list of speeks that I've fixed up already and can't seem to let go of...All three size old Advents, Fried A/2's, Paradigm 3SE Mini, Energy ESM-3's, Epicure Model 3's (one of my favorites, and of similar size and appearance as these Advents, see below from the Human Speakers page), and my prize find...for 100 bucks the Infinity Composition Prelude PFR's where I replaced all 12 surrounds in the lower and upper mids. They are spectacular.

And there are probably as many more pairs that I won't take the time or the space to list.

I also have the two pairs that haven't needed any work, the Totem Mani-2's and the Ohm Walsh 4's. I've managed to put together three complete systems for these two pairs and the Infinities between our two places.

And seven amps (mostly Quads and Carvers), and four preamps, and two integrateds, and two tuners (including a way cool SAE Mark VI with the scope and the nixie tubes), and five TT's, and various and sundry CD players, casette decks, and even an old 8-track player buried somewhere in the basement. So I'm thinkin' I may already be entrenched in the "hobby", eh?

But thanks Don...it's good feedback...since sometimes I'm convinced I'm a fucking wacked out hoarder. I assume most of you guys know about each other and all your gear from your activity over at AK...so now y'all have a feel for the level of my neurosis.

donquixote99 · #8 03-26-2014, 06:20 PM

Oh, you're fentrenched.

Now once you have a system for every room (and a couple extra), it's time for a driveway sale. After a point, the joy of acquisition requires corresponding outflow, unless you just groove on warehousing....

(Keep the Infinities.)

Ike Bana · #9 03-26-2014, 06:36 PM

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Oh, you're fentrenched.

Now once you have a system for every room (and a couple extra), it's time for a driveway sale. After a point, the joy of acquisition requires corresponding outflow, unless you just groove on warehousing....

(Keep the Infinities.)

I will definitely keep the Infinities.

But I still have this hoarder in reflection response when I think about the one's I didn't keep. The KEF-105's, the Linn Sara's, the B&W DM-7's, the little Dynaudio Contour 1.1's that put out an absolutely obscene amount of bottom for their size.

I think about all of these, and others, and I get this pain in my heart. What's wrong with me?

donquixote99 · #10 03-26-2014, 06:42 PM

Nothing. I still shed a tear for some Infinity Qb's on occasion. Dang did those 'low-end' Infinities throw a soundfield....

But you can't have everything, and you can only listen to one system at a time. I make it a point to not get too attached. I do enjoy the getting more than the having.