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A series of posts ending a couple of weeks ago discussed how I refurbished a pair of Advent Graduate speakers. After thorough cleaning and re-foaming, the only thing missing was the grill badge for one of the speakers. You can see this problem in the photo on the right where …
Well, here they are! The re-foaming is done and now the Advent Graduates are ready for testing. You will see that I did not replace the grill cloth and I am missing one of the badges. So far I have not been able to find a replacement badge! Apparently, that …
In my previous post I discussed the cleaning of the Advent Graduate speakers that you see on the right. Now that they are all nice and fresh, the time has come to replace the foam rings that surround the woofers. Remember, these foams are extremely important and without them the …
In my last post I mentioned that I had acquired a pair of Advent Graduate speakers at a community give-away event. Cosmetically, they were in pretty good condition, but the speaker foams were destroyed. I decided that repair was in order, so at the first opportunity I got on the …
I recently was visiting a community “give-away” event and this pair of Advent Graduate speakers caught my eye. The giver said they were in good condition and was appreciative that I was interested in them. I didn’t even bother to remove the grills to check them out, I just snagged …
There is a little bit of happiness when one is in the right place at the right time. In this instance I was able to purchase a rather nice reel-to-reel tape published by Columbia. The tape is Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic performing West Side Story and On …
I have been looking for this album for some time and recently came across it in the collection of a friend. Its not that the The Cars first studio album is hard to find. After all, you can get it on Amazon as a CD, but I wasn’t quite in …
I have recently been asked about how I care for my records. “Back in the day” this wasn’t really a big question because everyone knew the proper method of handling a record was to touch it only by the edges or the center. Actually touching the grooves of an LP …
In my last post I mentioned acquiring Islands by The Band. At about the same time I was able to obtain a copy of The Door’s LP L.A. Woman. Unfortunately, this particular record was more or less (mostly more, come to thing of it) mishandled and as more than a …
Here’s one of my more recent acquisitions, Islands by The Band. Islands was recorded by The Band in 1977 and, supposedly, ended up with mixed reviews. Of particular note is the track Georgia On My Mind which was recorded to help the Jimmy Carter campaign. This was The Band’s seventh …
