My first experience of Acoustic Research was a few years ago when I started a new job, and my new boss asked me to sort out a pair of AR3a's he picked up for cheap years back. I refoamed the drivers, replaced the lpads and caps, plus new HiVi tweeters. They sounded incredible! So I then set on the task to find myself a pair. I found a pair of AR3a Improveds on ebay and got a hold of them. The drivers had already been refoamed but the tweeters had been replaced with some nasty marantz ones. I was