I have a few pairs of those advents lying around... Not the prettyiest speakers but they are easy on the ears do some things better then you would expect from something so old. Actually, come to think of it, I recently paired a 100.00 pair of advents from the early 90s with my highend set up while i waited for my new speakers to arrive. I must admit these things impressed me. They did many things better than my 5K hometheater setup.... Wierd!!!
Pleasant surprises, what have you run across?
Not a biggie, but the other day I am working on a pair of speakers(Infinity 2.5, new surrounds) and while having them disconnected from my main system, I hooked up a pair of Epi M50's to it because it was quick and so I could have music during the repair. Now of course I had heard them before, used them in other rooms, etc. But I was just tremendously surprised again about how good an inexpensive(yes cheap)speaker could sound when hooked up to some decent gear(Perreaux SM2/3150,Elite DV 09, Scott 350B). Then I got to thinking about other pleasant surprises like the 1st Sonus Blue label, 1st real sound system,an AR System with AR 2AX's, 1st Advents,1st Stereo 70(about 1980), 1st Scott 350B(just recently) and some others. And now I wonder if any of the rest of you would share that experience, be interesting to read.