lakecat Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 And no one noticed?.....or cared?...:) Enough rocks thrown at them....but they showed that they sold......crazy https://www.ebay.com/itm/Acoustic-Research-AR-3-Very-LOW-Serial-Numbers-Shipping-READ-DESCRIPTION/182980246127?hash=item2a9a78fa6f:g:PnUAAOSwVJRZehm8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
genek Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 Some people have more money than common sense. I always hope there'll be one of them around whenever I want to sell something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lakecat Posted January 21, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 4 hours ago, genek said: Some people have more money than common sense. I always hope there'll be one of them around whenever I want to sell something. Meh....my motto is... Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayrosc Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 Jeez...maybe I should clean up my one AR3A after all... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyC Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 52 minutes ago, jayrosc said: Jeez...maybe I should clean up my one AR3A after all... Although all of the older AR speakers are selling for more these days, the AR-3 (not 3a) is presently going for much higher prices than in the past. I agree with the above comments. 5 grand could be spent much more wisely. Roy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayrosc Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 44 minutes ago, RoyC said: Although all of the older AR speakers are selling for more these days, the AR-3 (not 3a) is presently going for much higher prices than in the past. I agree with the above comments. 5 grand could be spent much more wisely. Roy Thanks for the input Roy. BTW, I live a stones throw from Woodstock NY, where Villchur spent time working on sound. We've all seen the pics of him and Roy Allison doing those outdoor concert comparisons between live acoustic instruments and his speakers. My AR3A may very well have come from his personal stock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stupidhead Posted January 22, 2018 Report Share Posted January 22, 2018 man, and they really aren't a very handsome set either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GD70 Posted January 26, 2018 Report Share Posted January 26, 2018 On 1/22/2018 at 4:48 PM, stupidhead said: man, and they really aren't a very handsome set either. And wait till they take the grills off! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spensar Posted January 27, 2018 Report Share Posted January 27, 2018 I see stuff like this from time to time that makes no sense at all and wonder if there is money laundering or transferring going on or what. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JKent Posted February 7, 2018 Report Share Posted February 7, 2018 On 1/21/2018 at 3:55 AM, genek said: Some people have more money than common sense. I always hope there'll be one of them around whenever I want to sell something. And now there are some AR-6 speakers for $1,740! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lakecat Posted February 7, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2018 1 hour ago, JKent said: And now there are some AR-6 speakers for $1,740! That is a seller in Japan. I have noticed when I see a high price on an audio item on there, it is usually from there. Odd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valkyrie Posted February 7, 2018 Report Share Posted February 7, 2018 I had an interesting experience recently selling some AR-3 speakers for a friend. These were SN C30345 and C30347 and I had rebuilt them; new Lpads, rebuilt midranges from Vintage AR and all new capacitors (film). Everything else including the interior packing were original. The cabs were walnut and in good shape for a 60 year old speaker. I put them on Craig's List as Fleabay is far too weird and unpredictable for this guy. I asked a $1000 and moved them out in less than a day - my goal was not to maximize the price I received but to get rid of the things. I have a set of AR-91s, which to my ears sound MUCH BETTER than the AR-3 so I had no interest in keeping the 3s. The fellow who bought them was Vietnamese and was a "flipper", i.e. he bought speakers for resale into the Far East - specifically Vietnam. I told him of the $5,000 AR-3s and he informed me that the price would drop for such speakers as soon as the Lunar New Year was celebrated. Evidently that holiday is very important in that region of the world - and there is a lot of gift giving during that period. He also told me that AR speakers are EXTREMELY POPULAR in Vietnam - and in fact all over the far east. The most important criteria in such speakers is their originality - even a tiny variation from "as built" destroys their value in that market. It is critical to the Vietnamese that any speaker be as original as possible. The interest in "vintage" speakers extends to Klipsch, JBL, Cerwin-Vega and almost all brands from the seventies - but ONLY from that era. I have a set of AR-9s as well as the 91s and he wanted to buy both - but I did NOT want to sell those beauties as I enjoy hearing them myself. He offered $800 for the 91s and $1000 for the Nines. Granted this is but a single data point from a single perspective - but when I helped him load the 3s into his van I noticed that it was filled with speakers - all vintage of one stripe or another - including the infamous "Kabuki Style" speakers from Sansui, Kenwood and Pioneer. This could be some kind of hangover from the war - where American servicemen bought loads of PX speakers - some of which were used in various bases throughout the country and no doubt heard by the locals - as they where all over every base filling a variety of roles. The buyer informed me that listening to recorded music is very popular in Vietnam - as there are few other outlets for home entertainment. So perhaps Far Eastern consumption is driving much of the run up in prices for AR speakers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JKent Posted February 18, 2018 Report Share Posted February 18, 2018 ...and to go with the 5 grand 3s, a pair of 3st super tweeters just went for $1,250. Yikes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samberger0357 Posted February 18, 2018 Report Share Posted February 18, 2018 3's are huge in Asia. Had a similar scenario as valkyrie's a few months back with a pair of 3's that I moved. They needed work that I didn't have time for so I put a $800 price on them. An hour after I had them on CL got an email from what turned out to be a Vietnamese fellow. When he came over he looked at them briefly, tried to talk me down(which I wouldn't do) and then took out 8 crisp, new $100 bills and that was that. Speaking to folks that I know that deal a lot with the Asian market vintage audio is bigger then ever over there. People are flush and all things vintage American is in high demand. Don't know if this is a bubble, but it certainly helps explain the prices being asked for some of this gear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lakecat Posted February 18, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2018 Not a bubble....as I have been selling to them for over five years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samberger0357 Posted February 18, 2018 Report Share Posted February 18, 2018 At the prices they are currently going for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lakecat Posted February 19, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2018 10 hours ago, samberger0357 said: At the prices they are currently going for? Yes...but depends on the item. Some things sold for more in the day...and some are more now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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