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From: avsdT:deborah@avsdS.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: Advent Receiver Query
Message-ID: <635@avsdT.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-Dec-83 20:17:36 EST
Article-I.D.: avsdT.635
Posted: Tue Dec 13 20:17:36 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 20-Dec-83 01:44:14 EST
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I have an Advent 300 receiver, which I purchased in Houston in 1977.
The Advent has an FM only receiver, a (conservatively rated) 15 watt
per channel amplifier, and tape and phono inputs. It has 2 stereo output
channels.  I believe the electronics of the Advent is perfectly
adequate for a casual listener such as me. My understanding was that 
Advent went out of business about 2 years ago, and sold the rights to
its speaker line to another company. But I didn't know anyone had rights
to the receivers.

As to the quality of the advent reciever, it is very clean. The fm tuner
tends to drift a bit as it gets warm. The switches on the front panel
feel rather inexpensive, and I don't know how reliable they are.
(Then again, I've had the beast for 8 years with no trouble).
However, I felt the unit was a very good deal for the $300 I paid for it
in '77. I would reccomend it to any casual stereo listener, or to someone
with not much money just starting to amass equipment.

-deborah gronke bennett
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