Around 1968, Kloss quit KLH to develop a low-cost projection television, but had trouble financing the leading-edge research and development that was still required. The name came from the legal description the advent corporation used in the incorporation documents as a placeholder name before the actual name was selected. Later models also supported recording on tape.Īdvent Corporation was a consumer audio and video hardware company founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts by Henry Kloss in 1967. They were/are great speakers.An early stand-alone Advent Dolby noise reduction unit, for tape playback use only. I would gobble up those Advents and get them fixed. They raved about triple Advents which I also tried, but my listening room couldn't handle all that greatness. I read about it in The Absolute Sound and they were right. They sounded much better than a single pair, almost like a different speaker. There was something about two pairs of Larger Advents that was a little magical. Double OLA's vs Single NLA's were no contest. One pair NLA's versus one pari OLA's I would give the NLA's the slight edge. They were a little more open than the OLA. In the sound department the NLA's had a more extended high end and a little more controlled bass. The NLA's were more modern looking, the OLA's were products of their times and kind of classic looking. The NLA's had a darker brown grill cloth and the wood frame around the grill cloth was a wood half-round. The OLA's had a light tan grill cloth with a wood moulded frame surrounding the grill cloth. I got to hear these speakers in the same room side by side. I do not regret any of my time with the Advents.įor those of you wondering the difference between the OLA's and the NLA's there were some noticeable differences. They served me until 2015 when I got my current speakers. They were too much for my relatively small listening room so the NLAs went out to the Living Room. I had double original Larger Advents until 1985 when I went to triples, adding a pair of NLA's. The OLA's were essentially about a 5 or 6 ohm load across most of their range. Luckily I had a monster Sansui 9090 receiver which had 110wRMS, but more importantly excelled at driving low impedance loads. Everyone wanted the newer model, but I asked and they still had a few OLA's. I managed to score the OLA's and at a good price. By then the newer model had come out and the appearance was different and the grill cloth was much darker. In 1978 I managed to grab second pair of original Larger Advents. My goal then was to have double Larger Advents. I started off with a pair of original Larger Advents in my sophomore year 1976. The West Coast Sound of Altec Lansing, Cerwin Vega and JBL all seemed too bright and over the top. I loved the East Coast Sound AR's, KLH and of course Advent.
Larger Advents had been my dream speaker from high school on.
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