Hi all,
I've had these AR3's stored for a number of years now and thought it was time to look at the potentiometers, I've not had much luck cleaning them, The potentiometers are still intermittent? If anything Possibly worse 😕
All the drive units work fine if I get the potentiometer in a sweet spot and wow sound superb, but then goes intermittent again from vibration I think?
Question 1 .
There looks to be 2 sellers on ebay that sell a correct type of replacement potentiometer, has anyone used these ?
Question 2.
I had been advised that the capacitors in speakers are possibly fine and don't have the same issues as power supplies capacitors ? Any thoughts on this ?
Question 3.
Do these look like original speakers units ? from just looking at the photos ? All the screws around the units look un-chewed / untouched, I don't fancy taking the mids and tweeters out to get serial numbers as these look so delicate and I wouldn't want to break anything. Unless I really have to ??
Question 4.
I did see a post on here talking about different woods being used in production, any ideas what these are made from ?
Question 5.
I don't have the time to fully restore these and certainly no space to keep them any longer.
Any ideas who would be interested in buying these AR3's ? And what these maybe worth? £ $ £ To the right person?
I'm located in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧
And as you'll know, my god they weigh some and I wouldn't want them to get damaged so I'm thinking international shipping is a no no.
Please see the photos, I can take more if required?
Many thanks,
Kind regards
Paul