ar_pro Posted December 21, 2018 Report Share Posted December 21, 2018 The January, 2019 Hi-Fi News gives praise to Acoustic Research in a longer column on the history of high fidelity: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lakecat Posted December 22, 2018 Report Share Posted December 22, 2018 That is awesome since the vintage market is so splintered with opinions. I agree with their thoughts. I have taken some awful looking AR's and made them shine again and feel good about preserving them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AR surround Posted December 23, 2018 Report Share Posted December 23, 2018 I just love the line, "...or trumpets some dead-end digital codec." MQA appears to be the latest of the lot that may also be destined for extinction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aadams Posted December 23, 2018 Report Share Posted December 23, 2018 It appears MQA is technically good, like Sony Betamax, but they tried to create a digital toll booth, like Sony Betamax, and there weren't enough takers. CD and ACC are examples of proprietary formats that became playback standards. Does it happen often? Those are the only two I know off hand. AR created a product that could be trusted to perform as specified apparently with little variation from box to box. That was and still is a significant contribution to the speaker world. If you want to know how well another brand stacks up,, new or old, compare it to a properly working AR. Adams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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