ecn-pc:pspe@pur-ee.UUCP (PSPE) (12/08/83)
I have read an advert by a firm called Blue Angel; they are based in
Virginia. They tend to ship in all sorts of stuff that is normally sold
in Europe; magazines, records (lots of classical and rock sets not usually
found just anywhere) and a few strange things like The Frank Zappa Songbook
(lyrics in English and German).
Anyway, this company is now trying to sell audio equipment. Their
first offering is a reciever-speaker combo; the reciever is 20 watts/channel,
is 5" X 5 1/2" X 6", has an old 30's radio dial (FM pickup only), and has a
regular number of connection leads for speakers, input, output, etc.......
There is also a 30 watt/channel model available, of standard reciever shape,
but very small and, like its kin, with no frills included. With the reciever
comes two bookself-size speakers.
The interesting point is that both of the systems, speakers and all, are
made by Advent. I've never heard of Advent making recievers before, and
would like to hear from anyone who has either had/has such a system or knows
of them. Thanks much!!!!
Richard Erwin
pur-ee!erwin or pur-ee!pspe
Purdue UniversityavsdT:deborah@avsdS.UUCP (12/14/83)
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 fortune!dsd!atd!avsdt:deborah ucbvax!atd!t:deborah
faunt@hplabsc.UUCP (Doug Faunt) (12/19/83)
Could you post an address for this place? Sounds interesting.