good find in the trash

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Topic: good find in the trash

Posted By: frizkysquirrel
Subject: good find in the trash
Date Posted: August 18, 2008 at 8:59 AM

i was driving through my neighborhood the other night, and man did i find something.

i noticed some speaker cabinets. they were large big heavy ass cabinets.

they turned out to be a set of AR-2ax. (Acoustic Research)
Picture of some AR-2ax(not mine)
behind the face

the ones i found are in great condition. i found that the controls on the back went bad. only the woofer was working. so i opened em up and bypassed them cause im using them with my Pioneer VSX-D307 with the signal from my computer, so i can equalize it.

man do these speakers sound nice! even for 20+ years old.

Replies:

Posted By: Steven Kephart
Date Posted: August 22, 2008 at 11:47 PM

My dad used to have a pair of those. He bought them brand new for IIRC $1200. Although I believe that was closer to 30+ years ago. Unfortunately he once had a teenage son that found the bass boost. posted_image

Posted By: frizkysquirrel
Date Posted: August 23, 2008 at 10:07 PM

haha, yea they put out some clean sounding bass, but i really am weary about over powering them cause they are so old, and i think the woofer surrounds are made of some sort of cloth.