What state do you live in?
There's a nice looking Marantz 2270 for sale in Maine for $250.00, he's willing to ground ship at 30+ pounds.
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There's a nice looking Marantz 2270 for sale in Maine for $250.00, he's willing to ground ship at 30+ pounds.
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If the Lafayette is plug and play it will provide more than $350 worth of service.
The Allegro 2000 is not a poor speaker. It has a decent woofer, and a good tweeter setup. Somethings wrong inside.
Jason Grace
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I'm in Michigan, it can't be that much to ship it. Would that be better than the Lafayette?
Jason Grace
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I'm thinking replace the caps in both, and maybe reverse engineer the cabinets in the Allegro's. They are coming apart from what looks like water damage to the OSB. They were my Grandpa's so they do carry a sentimental value.
Jason Grace
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I really appreciate all of your input. Thank you
I'm not really familiar with that Lafayette receiver. Hopefully someone else can chime in on the two, and what's a better deal.
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I aquired a pair of Smaller Advents, from the original owner, that also needed a refoam. After new foams were installed I replace the caps with Solens and replaced the 3.7mH inductors with heavier units. I also removed and replace the tinsel leads with heavier ones from Midwest speaker (no affil.). Currently they are connected to a Carver m1.0t which easily pushes 200wrms per channel, just for headroom.
I did a fav for a co-worker when his marantz 2270 receiver had scratchy pots. After the clean up I hooked it up to the Advents to check my work and was most pleased with the sound quality of the receiver and the Advents. So, I agree with @Te-Te, that marantz receiver would be a winner with the Advents IMHO.
Best of luck with whatever you decide.
I aquired a pair of Smaller Advents, from the original owner, that also needed a refoam. After new foams were installed I replace the caps with Solens and replaced the 3.7mH inductors with heavier units. I also removed and replace the tinsel leads with heavier ones from Midwest speaker (no affil.). Currently they are connected to a Carver m1.0t which easily pushes 200wrms per channel, just for headroom.
I did a fav for a co-worker when his marantz 2270 receiver had scratchy pots. After the clean up I hooked it up to the Advents to check my work and was most pleased with the sound quality of the receiver and the Advents. So, I agree with @Te-Te, that marantz receiver would be a winner with the Advents IMHO.
Best of luck with whatever you decide.
Jason Grace
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https://audiokarma.org/forums/index.php?threads/lafayette-lr-9090-impressions.47146/
This is the thread that lead me to my assumption of quality. He had it listed at $375, but offered to take $325. Looks wise it is stellar, of course I’d love to save some money but I’d rather buy the best I can afford first and then find another bit to add later.
This is the thread that lead me to my assumption of quality. He had it listed at $375, but offered to take $325. Looks wise it is stellar, of course I’d love to save some money but I’d rather buy the best I can afford first and then find another bit to add later.
my very first stereo was a schveet little Lafayette amp and tuner, purchased in 1976 and my son is still using it more than 4 decades later lol.
pictured here with some Canton Plus S and the matching Plus C passive sub waiting for my son to pick up.
kevintomb
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I remember years ago, a Zenith console built in receiver parents owned. (no idea of model or name)
But the owners book gave several specs (not super in depth), but even as a young teen I remember it was rated at like 3.5 watts per channel and thinking, wow, that is not much....but, it played fairly loud for sure and never sounded distorted or weak....
Jason Grace
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I just plugged them into my Kenwood receiver @ 120 wpc and they did sound nice, a bit muted but I have an old bose acoustimass 7 that is extremely bright so the Allegro's fill the midrange nicely. I hope the bass on the Advents are more pronounced and fill the lower registers.
From the looks of it, the versatility offered in a busy market, I'd bet on it being good... a sleeper in terms of its sound and build quality. I have no experience with it, a couple of things though... it has the power switch on the speaker selector, would prefer it separate... the built in Dolby, no idea how that circuitry might (or not) be integrated into the overall design, Dolby boards can be problematic. On the other hand Lafayette made, or had made for them, so quality components. You also mentioned a 949, assuming a Pioneer QRX 949 four channel... they had a few issues over time, bad differential pair on the driver boards, but properly serviced are reliable and they can be operated in a two channel mode at twice the power per channel of the four channel mode.. 90 watts per I think. I could live with a 949, they were the top of the four channel Pioneer line. The Advents would like the 949 as well as the Marantz 2270 mentioned in another post... many Advents were sold with either of those two units.
What model Kenwood receiver do you have?
Jason Grace
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I'm torn because my garage system will be played at higher levels than on my desk but if I can't find a good deal on a nice period receiver than that is where they are going.
Jason Grace
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My mistake it's 100wpc the KR V8060
FWIW, I've got a Kenwood KA-5500 powering my stacked Advents right now and I really enjoy the sound. With just a single pair of Advents, I've used my Fisher X-100-2 little integrated tube amp which is about 20 wpc and it sounds fantastic in my living room (19x14x8). The former is my summer setup and the latter used in the cooler months.
An AVR, not familiar with it at all or the later generations of Kenwood in general.... just the older stuff. On reading the 120 watt figure was hoping it would be a KR 9400 from 'back then', I used to own one... had three pairs of Advents hooked up to it in parallel... sounded good, ran hot but I ran it at high volume and it never quit... back then I didn't really care if it smoked, just take it to work and repair, different thinking now.
Jason Grace
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There's a Marantz 2216 not too far from me, but man I don't know that 16 watts per channel would get the job done. I am pretty happy with the sound I'm getting right now in my garage with the 90's Kenwood setup. I would like a cool setup in my house but I'm not going to rush it, I'll just keep my eye's open for a high-quality piece.