This is a review and detailed measurements of the "The New Advent Loudspeaker" vintage speaker, circa 1977. Maybe a little too revealing, albeit great for editing. Mind you, my default monitor was a pair of Stax Lambda Pro earspeakers. It was obvious that there was confusion/blurring with female vocals with the Advents. There were multiple systems to check out the sound of recordings, one happened to use a pair of Large, walnut veneered, Advents. I was working on several projects involving women's and girls chorus. So there's lots of confusion in the frequency range that coincides with female vocals. The crossover problem is that there's too much crossing over of each driver and the two drivers predictably don't sound similar. $1000 a pair for speakers was real money back in 1978, haven't seen powered Advents for decades, but the passive versions of the Large Advent are still floating around. In fact, that problem was directly addressed with the Powered Advents with very good results, at least sonically. The trouble with the Advents is the crossover. I'm not sure my second pair of Advents were the originals, the treble of that pair was anodyne, one of the speakers least obnoxious features. Thanks, maybe I'll look at the 1976 and earlier audio magazines.
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