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Thanks, I lucked out on that set. great looking and performing.

I have been using various Tube gear with the AR-1s. Including This Sherwood pair an ARC Tube pre and amp and as show in the second pic a pair of dynaco MKIV straight out of a mixer which is my favorite so far. I plan to get them hooked up to some interesting SS gear in the near future too.

I am finding the more I use them the better they are sounding. It took a bit for them to "loosen up". Exercising the pot also helped ensure continuity to the mid. I find my self using the AR-1s quite a bit lately.

Yes, there is some nice tidbits of history.

I couldn’t get it to load, nice job!

I found an interesting Modern Mavels episode that mentions the AR-1. For some reason I Connor attach a link but if you search “The History of Stereos Documentary “ it will come up.

AR-3, Have we documented procedures that look to reap good benefits! enjoy yours!

Hello Jeff, Thanks for sharing your experiance. I would love to clean up the panels some day but I think that will be in their future a bit. As you stated the patina tells a story and I am in no rush to change that beyond a cleaning and possibly a good wax/polish of some sort. Your redone AR looks fantastic. I can see that my covers which are in good shape physically are definitely dirty after almost 70 years or sitting around! My partner and I were working near our lounge all day Sunday and we had the music running all day. I am either getting used to them or they are waking up nicely. Either way I like what they offer. I have been slowly building a collection of vintage pieces that can bring home what it used to sound like to be a audiophile in the early days. Pretty much everyone is surprised at how good a vintage set up can sound when you take appropriate music into consideration. Enjoy!

I have a few more listening sessions under my belt with the Ar-1s and I have to say I love what they do. I think running them the last few nights has helped everything loosen up a bit. I originally thought that they might need to have the highs augmented but there is a certain sweetness to listening to them as is especially with jazz. It's rare that a new speaker compels my partner to comment but she sat down with me last evening and said "those really sound nice." That, my friends is a huge compliment from her! The fact that the pair match the Heywood Wakefield display case they are sitting near doesnt hurt the WAF either!

Thanks for the input. For now I will keep them in rotation and safely stored when not in use. I am more concerned about preserving the original intended sound than absolute resale value. I like the musical and history side of the vintage audio world.

Hello All, I am fairly new here and have been filling up on AR-9 info because I am about to start a re-fresh of a pair of those giants. I recently met a new audiophile friend who hooked me up with a very original pair of AR-1s. He knows I am a preservationist and I am in this hobby for the history and the sounds and he felt I would be a good custodian, I plan to not let him down. This pair have serial numbers of 9672 and 11000-ish. They have their original 755As and flesh colored woofer rolls. They both seem to be working well and the pots are still functional. These were well "loved" in their previous life including surviving at least one uncaring chuck into a trash bin... A few minor dings and some compromised finish on the birch? veneer. The speaker cloth is a bit loose on one but I am hesitant to mess with it until I learn more about them. I have a variety of tube and vintage SS amps to play them with and I hope to get a pair of Dynaco MKIIIs finished to run them with this winter. I see that some time these were run with additional external tweeters. I find that the vintage material I have been playing sound pretty decent as is but I am not against trying some external super-tweeters. Advice how these were traditionally hooked up will be put to good use. Any helpful preservation and maintenance tips are appreciated. Thanks in advance, Bill