Note that all items valued over $750 will require a signature upon delivery. When factory packaging not available re-usable shipping box with custom injected-foam mold will be used. Items with factory packaging will be double boxed. For all other locations including Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Alaska, please request a quote prior to purchase. Shipping: Cost to ship this item within the contiguous United States is a flat rate of $135 - including packaging and insurance. Other Notes: Rare pair of NLAs with the original literature and packaging, new woofer surrounds, and new woofer dustcaps.įamed Henry Kloss design- Audioholics named top 10 most influential speakers of the Last 50 Years. What is Included: Pair of speakers, Original literature, Set of binding post adapters (installed), Factory packagingįunctional Notes: Operational condition of this item is excellent, fully tested and no issues found. They have clearly been well loved and cared for their entire lives. When age is considered, these speakers are in nearly perfect condition with no major blemishes. The grills are pristine with just the slightest wrinkles in the cloth around the woofer cutouts. KVC itself ran into increasing competition from Japanese manufacturers entering the now-proven market for large-format consumer TVs, eventually sold its assets, and shut down.Product: Advent New Large Vintage Speakers NLA A3 Bullnose Walnut Pair Original BoxesĬosmetic Description: 7/10 Good cosmetic condition with some minor visible cosmetic wear including a handful of very light rub marks on the tops, sides, and baffles of both speakers and one small indentation on the left side of one cabinet. KVC passed on reacquiring the (by then) New Hampshire-based brand, which was later merged into Jensen Electronics, which in turn was acquired by Audiovox in 2004. It did not thrive, and never emerged from a bankruptcy declared in March 1981. Citing high labor costs, it closed its Cambridge factory in 1979, laying off most of its 650 workers, and moved production to New Hampshire. Eventually, long after Kloss' departure, Advent ran into hard times. He invented the Novatron tube there, which increased the efficiency of projection TVs.Īdvent continued to concentrate on low-cost high-performance consumer audio products. In 1977, Kloss founded Kloss Video Corporation (KVC) as a spin-off company. In 1972, the Advent VideoBeam 1000 was finally released, the first large-screen projection television for home use. Kloss introduced the Advent 201 in 1971, incorporating Dolby B noise reduction (for both recording and playback), along with chromium dioxide tape in the first popular high fidelity cassette deck. Kloss then resumed work on increasing the fidelity of cassette tapes, a format that had originally been developed to be used only for voice dictation. They were usually offered in both wood veneer and vinyl-covered "utility" cabinet versions, which other than appearance were acoustically identical.
#ORIGINAL LARGE ADVENT SPEAKER SIZE DRIVERS#
It rivaled the sound of the then top-line AR Model 3a (which used three drivers and a 12-inch (30 cm) woofer), but only cost about half as much.Īdvent produced a number of different versions of the 2-way Advent, including the Advent Loudspeaker, the Smaller Advent Loudspeaker, the "New" Advent Loudspeaker, Advent/2, Advent/3, 4000 series, and 5000 series, to name a few.
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The original capacitors were Unicon brand rated at 13uF and 50V. You can see the outline of the square magnet structure pressed into the foam by the woofer. The cabinets are filled with foam damping material.
#ORIGINAL LARGE ADVENT SPEAKER SIZE DRIVER#
To earn some money, he decided to build a high-performance low-cost dual driver speaker system with 10-inch (25 cm) woofer called simply The Advent Loudspeaker (later given the retronym the Larger Advent, after introduction of The Smaller Advent Loudspeaker). Large Advent speaker cabinet with drivers removed. ADVENT : ADVENT 'Baby II' speaker parts: ADVENT ORIGINAL BABY II Tweeter s: 99-20110 531TP2.75 '-DCR 6 Ohms: U: 0: Reference info ONLY. None currently for sale, but more MAY occasionally show up. Around 1968, Kloss had quit KLH to develop a low-cost projection television, but had trouble financing the leading-edge research and development that was still required. 'Baby II' speaker parts: ADVENT ORIGINAL BABY II WOOFER s: 32209 2203223: 6.5 '-4 Ohms: U: 0: Reference info ONLY. The name came from the legal description the advent corporation used in the incorporation documents as a placeholder name before the actual name is selected. This tweeter is also a good replacement for the orange and green Fried Egg tweeter used in the older Original Advent Large, A3, A4, Small, Smaller and a few other models, but some modifications are needed. 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. Advent tweeter part ’s: P85C00019, 85C00019, 99-20402 and more. An early stand-alone Advent Dolby noise reduction unit, for tape playback use only.