I have looked through and through and haven't found anything on the forum about these speakers. They are Advent towers with a tweeter and 4 or 5 inch woofer on top with a subwoofer in the base. The top portion of the speaker connects to the base with a 1/4 inch connector. The stickers with model number are long. I have the speaker apart and nothing was there either. Any help identofying these would be appreciated!
Help with these ADVENT speakers
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mhardy6647
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Unknown to me, but that ain't sayin' much 
Did you check the Advent reference thread here at AK?
http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=126376
Did you check the Advent section and/or the forums at www.classicspeakerpages.net ?
Did you check the Advent reference thread here at AK?
http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=126376
Did you check the Advent section and/or the forums at www.classicspeakerpages.net ?
RadShak1251
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Those are Advent Vision 500s.
They and another model (can't remember the name*) were Advent's effort at an upscale speaker, debuting sometime in the early to mid 90s. I remember the ad for them in some audio magazines at the time and really wanted to hear them. I am a big fan of Advent's gear, well, before their takeover by Recoton around 1994
who ended up using the Advent name on all kinds of stuff I considered to be junk.
* IIRC a floorstander using dual 6.5" woofers and a dome tweeter, installed in a six-sided enclosure
They and another model (can't remember the name*) were Advent's effort at an upscale speaker, debuting sometime in the early to mid 90s. I remember the ad for them in some audio magazines at the time and really wanted to hear them. I am a big fan of Advent's gear, well, before their takeover by Recoton around 1994
who ended up using the Advent name on all kinds of stuff I considered to be junk.* IIRC a floorstander using dual 6.5" woofers and a dome tweeter, installed in a six-sided enclosure
RadShak1251
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While Advent lost some of its special aura when Henry Kloss left the company & they were bought by International Jensen, personally I thought they continued to stay (mostly) true to his goals, which seemed to be good sound for not a lot of $$. And employing unconventional technology that while many times was of humble origin, performed much better than one would believe (their humble looks added to this perception! Bright orange donut-shaped tweeters - what the.....?!). While obviously not equal to a B&W or Dynaudio, they definitely aren't anything a person would be embarrassed to own.
And all the way up to their acquisition by Recoton in 1994, their owners stuck to systems long abandoned by most other companies, in particular the acoustic-suspension system* and two-way speakers that used relatively large woofers and even the quietly classy/furniture-like styling that blended in with one's home and not insignificantly, helped a dude convince his S.O. to allow him to buy them!
(I used to sell HT in the early/mid 90s which included Advent, Infinity and Cerwin-Vega, and am very familiar with this gender-polarizing issue).* the Vision 500 used a type of bandpass enclosure for its 6.5" single woofer, which allowed it to generate a lot of bass for such a small driver.