Aadams Posted April 24, 2019 Report Share Posted April 24, 2019 I have been searching the library for AR guidance on AR98 speaker placement. Specifically, if it is on the floor should it be against a wall? Or if it is raised from the floor should it be away from walls? The rear of the speaker has a floor/shelf toggle switch. Does anyone here know where I can find the guidance supplied by AR? I did find some Villchur speaker humor and a bit about design philosophy buried in a 1961 article. On the art of speaker placement On the purpose of an AR speaker Aadams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AR55 Posted April 24, 2019 Report Share Posted April 24, 2019 Attached is the booklet that came with my AR-98Ls'. Recommendations for speaker placement are provided on page 3. I have listened to them placed on the floor and on 12" tall stands. Personally I think that they sound best when placed on the stands. AR-98Ls_Instructions_for_Installation_and_Use.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aadams Posted April 25, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 25, 2019 Thank you AR55 and to whomever puts stuff in the library: The above pdf should be archived. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve F Posted April 26, 2019 Report Share Posted April 26, 2019 Aadams' tale of Villchur's humor is interesting. When I worked at Boston Acoustics, I wrote all the owner's manuals, training guides, magazine ads, etc for my products. One of them was the Recepter radio, a really good AM/FM mono table-top radio that sold for $159.00 (around 2001 or 2, if I recall). When we did the manuals, before we sent them out to print, we'd pass the draft around to people to see if they made sense. I put a "hook" in the Recepter's draft, to see if people were really reading it. For the FM antenna, I wrote something like, "Orient the antenna to the position that delivers the best reception, which is guaranteed by Murphy's Law to be the worst-looking location, like draped over the front of the kitchen counter." Well, BA's president came to my office holding the draft of the manual. I thought I was done for, in big trouble for joking around. "I love this!" he said. So it stayed in the final manual, packed with every product. It even made it into the next product's manual, which was done after I'd left the company. People love humor, if it's done intelligently and tastefully. People are people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ar_pro Posted April 26, 2019 Report Share Posted April 26, 2019 I seem to recall some humor in the voluminous, highly-technical manual for the Crown IC-150 preamp, or maybe it was one of their amplifiers. Audio Control also had a corporate sense of humor that found a spot in their manuals, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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