Usless but interesting ....how many of you old timers started with original Large Advents?

Yup my first pair of speakers (after I cobbled some together using TV and console stereo throw-aways) were the Large Advents.  Love those speakers, got 'em in the early 70's had them until just ~5 years ago.  Replaced the drivers at least twice due to foam rot.  I paid $100 each.  My old man almost had a heart attack, but I had earned the $.  How much did you pay?

Advents were best for Rock , AR's a bit better on Acoustic music.Best buy was the KLH _17  which still sounds good on Classical music .
I sold all three of them .

I certainly did.  Powered by a Harman Kardon receiver.   
Heard a pair recently at an event.  Thought they sounded muddy by modern standards.  

Started with Dynaco A25 love them still.

Great title!I remember Tech Hifi doing Presidents Day sales circa 1978 for various things, but always two pairs of Large Advents for $100. People would get in line at 6 am. 1980 I finally got up early and went down the line asking what people were in line to get. Of course the Advents were gone by the time I hit the fifth person in a twenty person line  ;-)  They had got in line at 3 am, which was not really heard of then.

I finally found a nice pair in early aughts at a flea market for $40. Was ecstatic at finally acquiring that holy grail. Blew the crossover within a week. Got it repaired at a speaker dealer. Fired it up again, and blew the foam on the woofers. Finally refoamed them a few years later, and had the idea of getting some sparkling high end in them to go with the legendary bass and Frankenstein together something all purpose high end. I had some Pinnacle tweeters installed and had it bench tested at the lab for two days until tweaked to the technicians exacting standards of perfection.

I did have a question for the group. I encountered this site searching around for info on the advisability of pairing these large Advents with a refurbed Marantz 2230 receiver. I'd just done an upgrade on turntable (since stereo time is now expanded during the day), and put in a Fluance rt84 with an Ortofon 2m blue and it was light years beyond my B&O Beogram. So I thought the phono preamp in the marantz, despite its 30 or more wpc would be an improvement on a Pioneer 604s, which I just realized was 130 wpc. The sound is different with the Marantz, still great, but I wonder: is the trade off worth losing the significant power boost with the Pioneer? The bass is close, but the extra power seemed to really bring the Advents to life.
My first post, thanks in advance for any and all opinions. (running  90/10 ratio of vinyl to cd if that matters)