AR3 Acoustic research

[louped garouv]

i bet i can still double my investment...

besides, they came that way....

[speakerdave]

Oh, man - foam on the front!! There goes the resale value . . . .

Nope-- that woofer is done that way originally. You can refoam it and not even take it out of the box.

David

[SEAWOLF97]

Glad you fixed those ARs. I have wanted a pair of AR3as for years, but have positively no place for them. Maybe I should post my secret AR desire on that thread about the speakers I'd love to upgrade to?


Widget

I currently have 7 AR3's & 3A's boxed and waiting for pickup for a long ocean cruise to OZ... 3 of them are mine and 2 other pairs are eBay bounty that are being combined with my 15 packages.

Hooked them up to verify b4 packing and they sound just as I remember them. Incredible bass, but weak mids and highs. All have chronic pot probs. Very well built , heavy and quite the speaker to have "in their day", but it is a deep , East Coast sound , very un-JBL.

They all have doped cloth surrounds, have never seen one with foam.

[louped garouv]

sure you have you popped the top (well front... ) on any AR3a cabinets?
looks like they are different b/t generations...

but you know people are always claiming crazy things on the internet too...



http://layneaudio.hypermart.net/ARinfo.htm

AR3: The woofer had a cast frame, cloth surround, and ribbed cone. The ALNICO magnet structure was a columnar bolted design, quite different from the modern "plate" magnets you see today.

AR3a: The woofer used in this later version has a very large [approx. 80 oz.] standard ceramic magnet structure, smooth paper cone, foam surround, and stamped steel frame. The overall sound quality is nearly identical to the original woofer, but efficiency is increased.

[speakerdave]

AR1, AR3 and early AR3a were fat single roll doped linen. Then came the foam.

David

[louped garouv]

amazing the knowledge around here....



thanks for the clarification!