Compare Large Advent?

AH the vintage large Advent speakers!! For many years 1971-1997 they were my main speakers. I had 4 stacked (tweeter to tweeter) for the fronts and singles for my rear channels. I drove the fronts with a Marantz 1200 Int amp 125 wpc. At the end I drove them with an Adcom tuner preamp and the 555 power amp. Great sound. It took the Apogee Calipers and finally the Divas for me to upgrade.
2 things:
1. At $200 per pair, they were considered cheap, so they were included in basically low fi systems. In fact with high end electronics with good power 100+ wpc, they were exceptional for the time and can easily compete with some of todays speakers costing up to $1000.
2. When stacked, they become a different beast altogether!! The sound becomes astonishing considering the system costs $400. I still have the 4 in mint condition in storage. One day I may set them up for comparision with my Divas. It'll be interesting, how they compare. IMHO they were probably best $400 new speakers ever. Mr. Kloss sure hit it right with these.

I can't claim to be an audio expert but I appreciate good sound. When I "upgraded" to my present system about 20 years ago I was talked into some DQ-20's instead of the Larger Advents that I was going to get at the time.

Two years ago I picked up some Larger Advents very reasonably priced and hooked them to the Monster Cable in place of the DQ-20's and in the exact sonic environment.

At first I saw no discernable difference but then I began to notice things that I had NOT been hearing on the Dahlquists. The more I listened across our eclectic collection that ranges from the hillbilly yodels of A. Tippin to Sinatra and Muldaur, from George Winston and the incredible diction of Streep to Loreena MacKennitt and John Anderson, from The Who and much Glimmer Twinz to Led Zep's incredible 5 [and even a few old Yardbirds] to Wagner as interpreted by Furtwangler, Flagstad and others more modern, to Josh Bell and Cash and Waylon and Willie and Big & Rich...

Anyway, you get the picture, our main speakers get played at a lot of different volumes and with a lot of different material. And across this diverse range I keep "discovering" things that weren't there with the DQ-20's. And no, my ears are not getting better with age ;^)

So cutting to the chase, I see that you keep up with the technical stuff and I wondered if you would explain why the Advent Heritage isn't as desirable as the old Larger [and Smaller] Advents. I am going to put my pair of DQ-20's on eBay and set up the dual Advent system so I need to know which years/models of the various large Advents would be best for this.

Thanks much in advance for any advice anyone can offer here; I am using a Sumo Polaris amp and a Sumo Athena pre-amp.

Most likely that Henry Kloss wasn't into the design at that time. The Large Advent was and still is the cream of the crop. When you get your second pair stack them with the tweeters close together (tweeter on top of the bottom speaker-tweeter on the bottom of the top one) You'll then hear things that you did'nt with just a single pair. The better the electronics the better these will sound!! I replaced my 1971s with 1978s (better quality assemblies)

For Moes Pizza,
Followup--You want the Large Advent. There's an Advent/1 but I don't think it's the same. Also, after you set up the Advents, remove the grill cloths!!! They get in the way of the music. If you haven't done that yet, try it--cleaner sound.

Does anyone else remember the short period during which Advent offered the "powered Advent Large Speaker?" I never heard them nor talked to anyone who had heard them, but I enjoyed my large advents. I played them with, alternately a Marantz 1060 and then an Advent 300. But the best sound I ever got out of them were when I used the 300 as a preamp and hooked up a monster mono guitar amp, just to see what they would do. Sounded great with the increased power. They like power.