Ronan

Hi Martin ! If you ( or any one) has a chance to travel through Denver Colorado I will sell my AR2 mahogany cabinet for you, and plus free an other AR2 that It has a little rough cabinet with the earlier woofer version ,, Thanks

Hi Michael! Congrats your Dad has been owned and you are still keep the very early AR3 speakers, this is the first time in the NET I see the very early AR3 with the real consecutive serial numbers. The lacquer cabinet speaker looks very new up front, if have a time would you please take some more pictures from the side and the back of both speakers. Yup as all of the old ARs speakers rusty dirty pots problems... to me I just used deoxit d5 spray to the pots and turn backward and forth for hundred times..somehow the Mid-Hi will be sound good at one spot. And are better keep it in all original condition, don't recap the crossover.. in case you want to sell it your speakers are worth over 3.5$K toward the Asian AR-3s collectors that most of them , they want the speakers are in original condition rather than the sounds... I had collected few ARs speakers pairs.. using for some kind of the old music. Daily I use the JBL C50 and c51 for the modern hifi music... but although the JBL has 15 inch woofers, they sound big and louder then the AR3, 12 inch woofer but the JBL bass is not strong and tight as the AR3s bass. I saw the very clean , mint Dynakit MarkIII in the background of your speaker pic ..I have the Dynakit ST70 hooked up with the Mcintosh C2300 tube preamp that It sounded different level comparing to the Dyna pas 3 preamp.. the Mid-Hi are sound very very more details ,clear and clean then the Pas 3... the weakness point of the C2300 is no loudness button so It is less bass then the Pas 3 preamp.

Read over this thread last night and still have the browsing link in my laptop Firefox history... here is some saving pictures and the Link for the AR3A late model.. https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/ele/d/san-francisco-acoustic-research/7396748899.html

As we all known the AR3s and AR3a rated 4 ohms and using 4 ohms Amp for them. But I am curious most of the Asian AR3s collector that they you the Fisher 500TX and 800-T for the AR-3 and AR3a and they said those amps are perfect matching ... as I read over the Fisher Manuals, both of the 500tx and 800-T rated 8 ohms... although they turned the volume up to 11 .. but from the AR Foreign forums I didn't hear any thread about the AR3s speakers cooked the Fisher receiver,,,, so that make me really confusion about using those Fisher receiver for the ARs speakers. Hope some one can explain clearly about this Fisher 500tx-800-T + AR3s if they set up, the safety....?

Hello Lakecat! Do you still use the Mac 2205 for the AR-LST, I had read over the foreign speakers forums some one upgraded the AMP for LST from the MAC 2205 to Mac 2500, the Guy said the mac 2500 is better than the 2205 when using for AR-LST, ME myself had owned the LST, in the past I had used the Mcintosh MC 275, a huge modern Mcintosh 402 weigh 120 pounds, 400 watts stereo 800 watts mono and fisher C-500 for the LST, I don't understand how come the HUGE Mac 402 , hooked up to the AR-LST, the bass is not tight as the Fisher C-500 tube receiver... so after using 3 amps for a while , result: 1. Fisher C-500, 2. Mcintosh mc 275 tube, 3. Mcintosh 402 ...so I temporary end up use the Fisher 500 C for my AR-LST,,, I am still looking for the Mac 2205 and the Phase Linear 700 series II amp that Frankmarsi recommended the best AMP for the LST....but not find both of it yet.