

- NEW LARGE ADVENT SPEAKER RESTORATION GUIDE PRO
- NEW LARGE ADVENT SPEAKER RESTORATION GUIDE PROFESSIONAL
Going to tell you a great tale of 1960’s speaker discovery and enlightenment.

Let me give you a quick first-hand recap of each era as I see it. Seen them all, heard them all from the 60’s
NEW LARGE ADVENT SPEAKER RESTORATION GUIDE PROFESSIONAL
Professional in the speaker business, I’ve heard, evaluated, dissected,Įnjoyed, marveled at, developed, marketed and sold every manner of speaker youĬan imagine for the last 30+ years. In custom floorstanding enclosures, then small bookshelf AR-4x’s. Speakers? The first speakers I grew up with were 15-inch “triaxial” British Goodmans The while during the emergence of great home theater, I observed (and still ownĪnd use daily) great high-end 2-channel electronics from the likes of Adcom, (this is still the favorite AV receiver of ALL time by Gene himself) High-end “super receivers” like the Denon AVR-5805.
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Pioneer “5-channel” Pro Logic home theater receivers and then those excellentĮarly 2000’s mid-priced receivers from Marantz and Denon and those phenomenal Went from two-channel audio to quadraphonic audio to early AV sound when we fedĪ 2-channel Hi-Fi VCR’s 20-20kHz audio outputs into our stereo systems.Įxperienced first-hand those terrible, shoddily-built first-generation Sony and To the last-generation Shure Type V MR cartridges with their almost CD-likeĭelicacy and detail combined with that classic analog warmth. Went through the transition from high tracking pressure early stereo cartridges Later mainstream solid state with its bullet-proof silicon transistor reliability. High-distortion tubes to early unreliable solid-state germanium transistors to Lived through the transition from mono to stereo, from low-powered Innocence of earlier times does have its specific attractions, the flat-outĮxcellence and realism of modern audio equipment takes the experience to aĪm of “the age” where I have lived through and experienced each of these major That one time period is “superior” to another? While the simplicity and Reality, every era of audio has its charms, its undeniable appeal. Influences of greed and market-driven profit motives. The most well-made or adhered to the tenets of the hobby the closest or hadĬompany heads who were more concerned with advancing the state of the art thanĪnything else and were therefore the least distracted by the destructive Proclaim that their era was the best, that the equipment from their time was Is there one time period that can be said toīe audio’s “Golden Age?” Does any particular era stand out from the rest?Īny enthusiast interest that spans the decades, ardent aficionados are quick to High-quality reproduced sound in the home has long been an enduring interestįor a very large number of people. It’s gone by several names over the years-hi-fi, stereo,Īudio, home theater-but however it’s known, the interest and pursuit of A span of more than 60 years, the hobby of audio has been a fascination for
