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A 6.5" diaphragm doesn't completely beam until 2250 Hz. The Advent woofer, while mounted in a 12" frame to maximize cone excursion, had a 6.5" cone crossing over to the tweeter at a very low (for a tweeter) 1KHz.
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paid special attention to driver size vs. The Advent, OTOH was designed specifically for linear in-room power response, and Kloss & co. The advantage is that it translates into high power handling capacity. If you move off-axis these suckouts give you that "cupped hands" sound.
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This means there are significant off-axis suckouts at 1100-1500 Hz and more than a full octave beaming between 27 Hz. A 12" woofer starts beaming at 1125 Hz and a 5" midrange starts beaming at 2700 Hz. By today's standards, the L100's crossover points are ridiculous-1500 Hz between a 12" woofer and 5" midrange, and 6000Hz between 5" midrange and the 1" tweeter. L100s are physically well built (except for the ubiquitous rotting foam surrounds almost everybody had back then), but the horizontal bookshelf design, adapted from the vertically oriented 4311 studio monitor, was optimized for controlled, almost nearfield listening and had no consideration for (or maybe awareness of) in-room power response. I never heard the Dynaco speakers but I had a pair of hand-built floorstanders with dual Danish-built Peerless textile dome tweeters for 12 years. I heard them (and Dahlquist, Ohm, and ESS) all day long. I worked at an audio store in Anaheim, CA in 1975-6 when the original Advent, JBL L100 and Bose 901 were dominating the market. It might be just nostalgia driven, or just a desire by many listeners to just lay back and listen to the music. However, old and inadequate these "geezers" might be and sound by today's audiophile standards of musical satisfaction, there seems to be a ton of Advent, Dynaco, AR and KLH, etc speakers being refoamed and retooled out on the market. It is not really a rock speaker and sounds good on jazz folk, most light classical, and easy listening music. All to often the frequency range of the media available.at the time, (LP's and tape) dictated the quality short cuts taken by Henry Kloss and Dave Hafler.Īnother factor, I believe, was often the social setting of the buyers. Young Couples with new homes seemed to be the perfect target for the Large Advent speaker. Member.Akg-ca was on target when he noted the cheap caliber of the parts being used to hit a certain price point. It looks like hardware store vintage, and sounded like crap. The Advent tweeter that I mentioned in my :"side note" was a worthless compromise on Kloss's part regardless of the attenuation switch on the back. 1969 to 1985, Advents were driven by 45-50 RMS Marantz, Pioneer, or Harmon Kardon receivers which were just adequate, but not if you wanted to play music loud whether rock or Beethoven. The problem that during their golden years approx. The Advents flourished with 200 watts plus. There were moments when I said this is one greatest speakers I ever heard. I owned a pair of Large Advents in 2005 and drove them with an Aragon 4004 MKII the rest of the system was CJ PV-8 and Sonographe Beta one CD player. I have always been interested in whether some of these early classics of sound, if driven with newer and/or better electronics would provide the ultimate euphoric, or easy listening experience that you don't always find in today's.speakers Yes, greater accuracy without a doubt, but does the listener really feel the music is both engaging and listenable. The comments make good horse sense regarding the listed speakers of a bygone age. If you are looking for a non-coloured balanced musical presentation especially with all the other music genres, look elsewhere.
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If you favour nostalgia and favour 70s hard rock played loud, the JBLs will be your boomy bass party speaker.
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Full stop.Remember that all of these geezer-rock era speakers have ultra-cheap basic spring-loaded speaker binding posts limited to 18-gauge zip cord cheap and crappy speaker cable posts that need replacement, and likely need speaker surround re-foaming and maybe even new caps. (2) none of the OPs suggestions will match up to current era standmounts with their improved design build, and crossovers. ) with heavily spiked frequency curve In the treble and bass to accentuate a tailored pop and rock music presentation of the era. (1) these were a "California" sound speaker ( Google the term. Had the DYNACOS, then the ADVENTS, then EPIs, and then JBL-100s back in my young days at university.