Compare Large Advent?

A friend has a mint pair of powered Large Advents for sale if anyone here is interested; work perfectly

Just wanted to say that I owned a pair of Large Advents and I drove them with a Marantz 1230. I had a thorens TD150 turntable and the sound was so incredible. I never heard better until I heard ADS. The only weakness in the Advents was the tweeter.. The bass kicked ASS

This is a speaker for which I don't understand the adoration. I've heard this speaker in my home and it doesn't hold a candle to my 40 year old ESS, much less my modern Focals. 

I agree , but the Smaller Advent was better. Sill no world-beater though .

IMHO the newer large Advent was and remains a great speaker. I had the surrounds of mine replaced by John of VanL Speakerworks in Chicago. He upgraded my crossovers and internal wiring too. They are in my basement and I play rock while I work out using my high school receiver-a Sansui 771. With good speaker cable, and proper placement, the sound is surprisingly good. And that is in comparison to 75K of electronics upstairs.