AR-2 question.

[JeffS]

While searching eBay today I came across two separate auctions for AR-2's. One auction features a single speaker, the other is for three speakers. The interesting thing was that all of the cabinets had legs.

Were legs an option on the AR-2's?

Jeff S.

[ninohernes]

I saw that too. I do not think it was an option, however I could be wrong.

[Guest Bret]

>One auction features a single speaker, the other is for three speakers. The interesting thing was that all of the cabinets had legs.<

That explains the single and the triple. One went to visit friends.

Bret

[JeffS]

The auction for the three units states that they "include the screw-on legs that can be set at two different angles."

That makes me think that they may have been an option.

[ninohernes]

The holes would ruin the acoustic suspension though, this makes me think that the legs were added. The woofers in these look exactly like AR-3 woofers, except smaller. They are sealed woofers. No vent in the magnet or the dust cap.

[tysontom]

>While searching eBay today I came across two separate

>auctions for AR-2's. One auction features a single speaker,

>the other is for three speakers. The interesting thing was

>that all of the cabinets had legs.

>Were legs an option on the AR-2's?

>Jeff S.

Jeff,

No, legs were not offered by AR. They may have been made by someone else and sold for use with AR-2's. On finished AR-2 cabinets, the bottom side of the speaker (the side that would rest on a bookshelf) was unfinished, and this might be the reason people (with no bookshelves) mounted them with legs: to hide the bottom side. Beisdes, the AR-2 had to be mounted horizontally anyway due to the position of the two 5-inch midrange drivers.

In the late-1950s and throughout the 1960s, AR did offer an elegant mounting solution for the AR-1, AR-2 and AR-3 in the form of the wrought-iron legs and shelves, called the AR Speaker Stand. These stands were the proper width to handle a typical AR bookshelf speaker -- positioned in the "traditional" AR way -- horizontally. At $30.00 each, they were not inexpensive, but they could be ordered in any of the standard speaker finishes. Those felt pads shipped with every AR speaker were designed to be used in such a case. Pictures of the AR speakers in the AR Music Room in NYC show the speakers mounted on those stands. AR also had the solid-walnut speaker base, often seen with AR-3a (vertically). This base lifted the AR speaker approximately a foot off the floor, but this type base would not work with the old-style AR-2 with it one unfinished side.

--Tom Tyson