administrator Posted September 10, 2002 Report Share Posted September 10, 2002 On the back of one of my AR3's is written in pen:"Converted to 3A 11/14/74 by JM"I am assuming this was done by AR .. (I am at least the second owner of these.)Any of the AR folks remember who JM was?Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkantor Posted September 10, 2002 Report Share Posted September 10, 2002 Sheesh, AR only had about 200 employees in 1974....But I'll think about it. -k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
administrator Posted September 10, 2002 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2002 Only 200? That should be no problem .. I took some high resolution pictures this last weekend of my AR3/A's which are "in progress" .. these are the cabinets my dad had signed by Villchur a few years ago. I also took some shots of the AR303a's so people can check them out. I don't think I have ever seen 303a pictures on the net. Granted, they are very similar to the 303. I hope to have all the pics online this coming weekend.And .. I saw a reference to a 302T on the net?? A tower version of the 302? Did this not get into full production? I checked my sales brochure I got from AR at the time and no mention of it.Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
administrator Posted September 16, 2002 Author Report Share Posted September 16, 2002 The pictures are now online of my AR3's and AR303a's .. not very high resolution anymore after conversion for the web, but I think 800x600 was a good tradeoff.I put them in the AR303 series section of the site.Here's a link:http://www.arsenal.net/speakers/ar/ar-303/...nd%20AR303a.htmMark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 17, 2002 Report Share Posted September 17, 2002 A little off topic put how do the 3A's compare with the 303's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tysontom Posted September 17, 2002 Report Share Posted September 17, 2002 >A little off topic put how do the 3A's compare with the >303's? Julian Hirsch of Hirsch-Houck Labs did this very comparison in a published review in *Stereo Review* magazine a few years ago, using a pair of AR-303's and a pair of my AR-3a's. Admittedly, my AR-3a's were 1967 original, mint-condition, little-used pair of the AR-3a, and this helped a great deal. I first sent my AR-3a's off to AR in Benecia, California, and the engineers there (primarily Bill Bush, assistant to Ken Kantor in the early NHT days) checked the pair carefully to be sure they worked properly. Then the AR-3a's were sent to New York for Julian Hirsch to measure, listen to and report on, if you will. There was a definite "family resemblance," and there were more similarities than differences, which I think was the intent of designer Ken Kantor and his team, but the 303 definitely has flatter and smoother frequency response across the band. It is an improved speaker in nearly every respect. As for acoustic-power response, I would think that would be a close call.--Tom Tyson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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