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Mine also walnut and cream colored tweeters.

The 10pi were OK, I just found others in the room better.

Scottie, I find the LST-2 to be the second best in my system. I’m sure it’s personal preference. My ESS amt-3 rock monitors have not been bested yet. The LST-2 are not going anywhere though.

I have been tempted to sell my LST-2 and had them listed at $1200. There were no takers at my price although got a $1000 offer. However these things are just too too nice to give up. Not my favorite of the speaker sets in my sound room mainly because they need an extra notch on the preamp volume. I have had and sold some other AR boxes and none of those compare…AR2ax, AR5 and AR10pi. I’m not even sure in my 13x13 room LST would sound better.

The original woofer for AR5 is AR part number 1200004-3 which is 8 ohm impedance. Only the AR5 and LST-2 shared these. AR2 used 1200004-2 which was 4 ohm. As you mentioned the originals are very hard to find. I used 10” woofers for my AR5 that came from the AR58 which do work.

Georgio, On an aside I see you are into old motorcycles also. From my garage to you.

John, I sold my pair of AR-5 this afternoon. First the original Sprague capacitors in the crossovers are superior to Dayton. If they scope out I them alone. The AR-5 is a good sounding system with 8 ohm versions of AR-3a mid and tweeter domes. I have a pair of LST-2 with the same drivers, only three times the mids, tweeters, so the 5s weren’t really needed.

I reduced my collection to two pairs now. Keeping the LST-2 and modified ESS amt-3 Rock Monitors. Less clutter in the room now. Time to sell a couple of the reel to reels as I have five of these.

Anthony, I used foam acoustic tiles glued with contact adhesive to the inside walls on my ESS rock monitor speakers. This was suggested by a forum member. Very good sound results.

Do your stands add to the base response or only the position against the wall does? I think the Bose stands are OK for the smaller LST-2 as far as stability.

I have tried them against the wall spaced at the middle 2/3rds of the room width. They are in this position as I just finished them and they as accessible for any adjustment. You don’t like my Bose stands?

Just completed refinishing these. Sanded IMG_1489.MOV to bare walnut veneer and rubbed on boiled linseed oil. Now they look as good as they sound. Emerson Lake and Palmer Tarkus album.

Hi Kev, Did you get a reply to this? I am no expert so will not try to answer your question. I am enjoying my LST-2 right now listening to Men at Work Cargo vinyl. Chris V rebuilt all six of my tweeters. Alternately I have ESS amt3 rock monitors and ESS amt1a pyramids. For some time I thought the ESS were better sounding, but as either I’m getting used to the LST-2 or they are breaking in….I like these enough not to put them up for sale. The ESS are not going anywhere either.

By the way I’m in a selling binge. In the last month sold ESS amt1b, Dual 721 turntable and Teac 450 cassette. Still have a Teac A-2300SD up for sale, while keeping Teac A-5500 and A-6300. Down to three sets of speakers that I’m keeping.

Got you. Yes the six Chris rebuilt for me in the LST-2 sound really good. Yet another reason to pass on those late model AR3 in San Francisco. Chris charges $65 each plus shipping in the tweeters and I did find an AR 200003 woofer on eBay for $100. At these costs I would do it only if I wanted to keep them.

I’m jumping around here, but how should my LST-2s be set up in a 13’x13’ room?windows on two adjacent walls behind and right, hardwood floors with an area rug in the middle, 8’ ceiling. I have them 30” from the back wall and centered 7’ apart now.

Regarding the tweeters, why do you assume they need rebuilding? None of them in my LST-2 worked which is why I had them rebuilt.

That’s the ad and it’s still up. I was debating on these, but my current set of speakers is probably better sounding than these even when the AR3a are restored. I drove a long distance to pick up a set of Belle Klipsch about a week ago and came back empty handed, so a bit shy about more speakers now.

These that I passed on were on eBay in San Francisco. I don’t see the ad any longer. There are a pair of AR11 closer to me listed for $380 which have all the same drivers as the 3a advertised. I just sold a pair of 10pi, so not really excited about the 11s. Think I will just cool my enthusiasm and sit here listening to the LST-2s with Santana’s first album playing.

That’s probably what I was looking for when posting….thanks. I told the seller I’m going to pass. By the way those LST-2 get better each time I listen to them. Gotta give them a bit more volume though.

I’m driving a bit tomorrow to look at some late model AR3a speakers. Asking price is $550. The mids and tweeters appearantly are working. The woofers…one with broken surround the other is completely missing. Local prices for these are in th $800 to $1200 range. What do you think of the price? Cabinets are an 8/10 from the photos. The mids and tweeters are the same as in my LST-2s and the backside labels are the Teledyne type.

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delete this ad, no longer for sale.

I just got home with Bose tulip stands. They are sturdy and look great with the LST-2 speakers.

Got them off the floor using vinyl record boxes…13.5” high. I just wanted to hear the AR 20004-0 (AR-48) woofers that got new butyl rubber surrounds. I bought these as I could not find AR 20004-3 and read somewhere all the later 10” AR woofers with four screw holes will work well for the LST-2.