While now I am older, and slightly less penniless, I welcome the interval progress in speaker design and materials that brought us better choices and much, much better sound. The price of the MLs in (devalued) italian Liras was in the many millions and comparable to price of luxury sedan automobile. They played a good pressing of Dark Side of the Moon: I sat in religious silence and left speechless as I compared the sound of the Advents/ML/Supex with the sound in my bedroom of a system composed of Dual record player/Shure 91 ED/Grunding RTV 700 receiver (10 W/ch on 4 ohm!) and AR 4-x (with the unreliable and scratchy potentiometer for the tweeter level). I was near the end of my High School, driving a Vespa PX125E and functionally penniless from a relatively well-off family. My memory of the New Advents dates back to a 1978 visit with my late father and my girlfriend at the time (Patrizia) at an Hi-Fi expo at Fiera di Milano, when they were chosen by the Mark Levinson dealer to showcase their ML-2 Class A 25 W mono-block power amps, JNC-2 preamp and a Supex MC cartridge on a Thorens record player.
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