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Are Vintage Speakers Like Vintage Tyres?
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<blockquote data-quote="Rex" data-source="post: 1117595" data-attributes="member: 24416"><p>Some more on this topic.</p><p></p><p>I bought a used Acoustic Research AR4000 home theater set this past weekend. So here's two observations;</p><p>(1) Visually the set looks very good, and performance wise it should be as good as when new. According to the seller he bought it new in 2010, played it 5 times (?!) during the next 5 years and then put it into storage for the past 7 years.</p><p>(2) I suspect that the 4000 was AR's top offering in 2010. One of two AR brochures that came with the set states that the "AR4000 is probably the best stereo and home theater system we have ever made. Period!"</p><p></p><p>So last night, in stereo mode, I stacked up the 2 front units against my old AR3a's, 1968 vs 2010. And yes, after a decade of listening exclusively to AR3a's, they have become my sole reference for what recorded music should sound like, and I'm probably totally out of the ball park. But in my mind, the AR-F4000 placed a distant 2nd. Only the tweeter could hold its own; mid-range was almost missing and the bass had an excessive boominess.</p><p></p><p>So when the brochure states that the AR4000 is the best they have ever made, Audiovox, the current owner of AR, was either looking at only their period of ownership, or they've never listened to classic AR speakers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rex, post: 1117595, member: 24416"] Some more on this topic. I bought a used Acoustic Research AR4000 home theater set this past weekend. So here's two observations; (1) Visually the set looks very good, and performance wise it should be as good as when new. According to the seller he bought it new in 2010, played it 5 times (?!) during the next 5 years and then put it into storage for the past 7 years. (2) I suspect that the 4000 was AR's top offering in 2010. One of two AR brochures that came with the set states that the "AR4000 is probably the best stereo and home theater system we have ever made. Period!" So last night, in stereo mode, I stacked up the 2 front units against my old AR3a's, 1968 vs 2010. And yes, after a decade of listening exclusively to AR3a's, they have become my sole reference for what recorded music should sound like, and I'm probably totally out of the ball park. But in my mind, the AR-F4000 placed a distant 2nd. Only the tweeter could hold its own; mid-range was almost missing and the bass had an excessive boominess. So when the brochure states that the AR4000 is the best they have ever made, Audiovox, the current owner of AR, was either looking at only their period of ownership, or they've never listened to classic AR speakers. [/QUOTE]
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