Posted by granch [ 75.163.31.127 ] on September 09, 2007 at 22:06:05:

In Reply to: Re: Acoustic research posted by hurdy_gurdyman on May 31, 2007 at 09:07:37:

I have never seen an AR speaker with a burned out tweeter. What I have seen is this: For some unknown reason the controls that AR had on the back of their speakers were extremely prone to open and kill the tweeters all together. Vigorous swiping back and forth could always cure the problem, but it would come back again over and over. Eventually I opened them up and rewired the controls so that the pots were out of the circuit - always tweeter full on. THAT would fix them. The woofers were so good it was difficult to notice that the tweeter was dead. Whenever I visited a certain friend's house for an evening of music, I always had to "fix" his AR tweeters first.
Today, IMHOP, they are still as good as anything within miles of their price or size. When I give outside organ concerts in stereo, I use a huge system with three Altec A-7's per channel for the Lake. I use two AR-3a's as a side system for people on my lawn.

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