They learned from their mistakes, Paul Rigby was being very kind about their latests offering (which is assembled to a NAD design from the Pro-Ject parts bin and by Pro-Ject)
The real thing about mistakes is that you learn from them , you learn more from what goes wrong than what goes right.
The original AR Turntable is the topic of discussion here, but it should be remembered that the head designer at AR, Edgar Villchur, not only produced the first acoustic suspension turntable, he was also the inventor of the first acoustic suspension loudspeaker, the AR-1, in 1954, the âbass reflexâ concept. All sealed-box designs are descendants of this. The AR-3, in 1958, added a dome midrange and tweeter, and was considered the most accurate speaker of its day by many critics.
In the mid to late 1960s, AR dominated high-quality but affordable audio in the eastern US, more affordable than Marantz or McIntosh. There was an AR showroom in Grand Central Station that helped promote the brand. My first serious system, purchased in 1967, consisted of the AR Turntable, AR 4x speakers, and the newly released solid-state AR Amplifier.
NDX 2, Supernait 1, Core, Hi Cap 2, B&W CM7, Nagaoka MP 200 cartridge and a Sonneteer Sedley phono stage.
After the lock down is lifted a XPSDR, NAC 282, NAP200 DR , Hi Cap 2 DR and B&W 804D2 Will be place
Hi Paul, Iâd love to hear your views and experience of that Sara tonearm. What it replaced and how it compares etc. I ask because I have the Roksan Nima on my LP12 and Iâm being guided by my dealer in the direction of the Sara as a worthy alternative to a Naim ARO which are increasingly difficult to source/find spares for.
Small correction it was bass reflex (ported) designs that were the norm in this era. Some cabinets even had user tunable ports with arcane instructions to listen to for when the sound changed from boing to boof when a battery was connected to the woofer!
AR used a sealed cabinet and the âspringinessâ of the trapped air was used as part of the woofers suspension. The trade-off was efficiency, but critics of the time were amazed.
Hi KJC, I canât really help on the Naim ARO âŚBUT Sara seemed a logical replacement for me as it was replacing a Nima and because of how the DPS is designed, I wasnât sure just replacing a tonearm would make much difference, wow what surpise I got, I wonât blind you with hifi jargon (because I donât understand half of what there talking about) but everything seemed a lot clearer, I was hearing things I hadnât noticed before, and feel it was worth the ÂŁ1800 outlay and would highly recommend it. It was very easy to fit, Roksan instruction manual used a easy step by step setup guild,(maybe they should write setup guilds for Ikea ) I hope that helped