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Post by ChrisB on Apr 2, 2016 18:25:29 GMT
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Post by ChrisB on Apr 2, 2016 18:27:00 GMT
I have some other material including reviews, which I will post later, but that's enough to be going on with for now, I reckon! Enjoy!
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Post by davidf on Apr 2, 2016 18:47:08 GMT
I remember those! Looked quite nice at the time. Probably look good now if they reappeared...
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Post by ChrisB on Apr 2, 2016 18:52:09 GMT
They would, wouldn't they?
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Post by davidf on Apr 2, 2016 18:54:28 GMT
Slight retro look too
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Post by davidf on Apr 2, 2016 18:59:24 GMT
I remember I used to see them in Laskys on Corporation Street on my weekly Saturday visit to Birmingham city centre where me and my mates would visit all the record stores and most of the hi-fi shops. Used to take a full day that!
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Post by dsjr on Apr 2, 2016 19:08:25 GMT
They sounded good in a big, warm and friendly kind of way.
After this time, amp designers apparently used to deliberately engineer in a touch of 'transient ringing' I believe it's called, to make the amps sound more impressive in a short-term demonstration. Amps that didn't do this weren't as 'exciting' to the What Hifi crowd and these sort of fizzled away.
Thanks to info here, I know Stan Curtis did a later amp for AR, but I wonder who oversaw this range, as all of it is very good (from memory).
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Post by MartinT on Apr 3, 2016 7:44:15 GMT
I remember I used to see them in Laskys on Corporation Street on my weekly Saturday visit to Birmingham city centre where me and my mates would visit all the record stores and most of the hi-fi shops. Used to take a full day that! I used to do that in Tottenham Court Road on a Saturday. Laskys and Lindair (later Lion House), then the smaller ones, then on to Virgin and HMV for music and Foyles for books. I loved listening to the big JBL and Altec systems. AR, too.
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Post by ChrisB on Apr 3, 2016 21:15:18 GMT
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Post by ChrisB on Apr 3, 2016 21:20:07 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2016 23:07:23 GMT
Very interesting. Made by a Japanese company but not NAD or Proton. AMC? Onkyo?
I'd guess AMC myself.
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Post by ChrisB on Apr 3, 2016 23:33:09 GMT
No mention that I can see of who designed the circuit. The only clue is that there was considerable UK input but that the aesthetics and casework were designed by a US company.
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Post by Chris on Apr 4, 2016 4:03:06 GMT
I was selling off a few things to fund my AR 07. Turns out the fella who bought some stuff off me has an AR record deck. Must get them together just for the crack.
Very interesting ChrisB and thanks for posting this.
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Post by Chris on Apr 4, 2016 4:15:55 GMT
They sounded good in a big, warm and friendly kind of way. After this time, amp designers apparently used to deliberately engineer in a touch of 'transient ringing' I believe it's called, to make the amps sound more impressive in a short-term demonstration. Amps that didn't do this weren't as 'exciting' to the What Hifi crowd and these sort of fizzled away. Thanks to info here, I know Stan Curtis did a later amp for AR, but I wonder who oversaw this range, as all of it is very good (from memory). Mike Bartlett is mentioned in one of the articles.
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Post by Chris on Apr 4, 2016 4:18:42 GMT
I remember those! Looked quite nice at the time. Probably look good now if they reappeared... I'm waiting on this one : www.ebay.co.uk/ulk/itm/152035770958Might have to tidy it up a wee bit - I'm thinking acetone depending how it looks in the flesh and I may get a wee bit internal work done due to its age. Should be nice though.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2016 6:01:42 GMT
Mile Bartlett used to work for Rotel, so maybe there's also a manufacturing connection there too.
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Post by Chris on Apr 4, 2016 6:23:10 GMT
Wonder if he was one of the ten xenophobic Brits working in a garage....
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Post by ChrisB on Apr 4, 2016 6:51:36 GMT
The hardest to find of all the AR electronics are the models from the 'Limited' range of the early 1990s. This was an attempt at the high end for not unreasonable prices and was the result of a collaboration between several highly influential figures such as Dan d'Agostino, Mark Levinson and David Day (of Day Sequerra tuner fame). Levinson was impressed by the results obtained when hooking a pair of the little M1 Holographic Imaging speakers up to his own stratosphercally priced amps and helped to gather together a crack team of folks to get AR back in the limelight. I saw, but never heard, some of the range in 1991 and thought they were just beautiful bits of kit. I'd love to get my hands on a pair of the pre and power amps.
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Post by ChrisB on Apr 4, 2016 7:05:29 GMT
Pre/power plus eq unit in the vein of the Cello Audio Palette and the big speakers.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2016 7:27:37 GMT
Now that's my kind of kit
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