The original AR3a speakers has been the only speakers that I have kept on listening to through the years.
I have had many other expensive and also good speakers , but only the Ar3a remained in the end.
It has absolutely no listening fatigue , even when listening on high volume for hours.
The sound is very warm , designed I believe specifically for classical music , they have the exact sound of a live orchestra.
In music like rock and pop they will not perform as good.
I have done some research on the internet and it seems so be very hard for people to make a Clone speaker out of the AR3a. Especially for the 11" Woofer that goes down below 30HZ with no distortion recorded at all.
It has been said that there were once some Seas drivers that came close to the specs of the original 1956 AR drivers , but they are not in production anymore.
I got hold of an original "copy" of the AR3a crossover after a long search for it. When I opened up my AR3a's to refoam the surrounds I was surprised to see how massive the crossovers were. The capacitors are bigger than my hand stretched out , the whole back of the speaker was the crossover.
Some really serious stuff in there. But not impossible to clone...
Does anyone think it will be possible to create a clone speaker for the Original AR3a? With the same specs , but more importantly with the same sound? It does not have to look the same , it does not have to have the same size drivers ... But is must sound identical..
I am sure a crossover can be manipulated to sound the same with good quality drivers as the original AR3a's , maybe the specs won't be the same on paper , but the sound can be??
I have had many other expensive and also good speakers , but only the Ar3a remained in the end.
It has absolutely no listening fatigue , even when listening on high volume for hours.
The sound is very warm , designed I believe specifically for classical music , they have the exact sound of a live orchestra.
In music like rock and pop they will not perform as good.
I have done some research on the internet and it seems so be very hard for people to make a Clone speaker out of the AR3a. Especially for the 11" Woofer that goes down below 30HZ with no distortion recorded at all.
It has been said that there were once some Seas drivers that came close to the specs of the original 1956 AR drivers , but they are not in production anymore.
I got hold of an original "copy" of the AR3a crossover after a long search for it. When I opened up my AR3a's to refoam the surrounds I was surprised to see how massive the crossovers were. The capacitors are bigger than my hand stretched out , the whole back of the speaker was the crossover.
Some really serious stuff in there. But not impossible to clone...
Does anyone think it will be possible to create a clone speaker for the Original AR3a? With the same specs , but more importantly with the same sound? It does not have to look the same , it does not have to have the same size drivers ... But is must sound identical..
I am sure a crossover can be manipulated to sound the same with good quality drivers as the original AR3a's , maybe the specs won't be the same on paper , but the sound can be??
