AR3 Speaker Repair

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We offer a complete speaker repair and restoration service. Our specialty is vintage speaker restoration and the reversal of all age related issues. We can even restore your vintage speakers' performance to as good as new. Just take a look at some of our videos and the before and after shots of our work to see the results for yourself.
We are situated in Austin Texas.
Located in North Austin near Burnet, and West Koenig.
We meet by appointment, and can be reached
By phone: [phone]
By email: [e-mail]

[@inixio11]

Thank you, thank you, thank you...for the video and for not assuming information so the newbies like me can learn. Excellent tricks that will be applied in my next (first) project.

[@coreyfellows9420]

Been getting into speaker repair. I buy and sell and repair old vintage but I never messed with speakers unless they was in good shape. Then I finally did a refoam for a friend and later a recone and now im hooked. Anyways... Ya got a new subscriber here buddy.

[@Anth4044]

Great vid your very knowledgeable and it's good your keeping them together,They also made everything back then so good

[@muratonal3906]

As Ramses electronic audio and video systems, we will be happy to see you among us.

[@scolopede]

Your vids are real interesting to me. I learn a lot from your vids, thanks! You also fixed one of my speakers and they're still sounding great. I'm not intimidated to do a lot of this myself now. I think I screwed up an old late 50's Jensen woofer though, the VC, don't know about tackling that one. I was real disappointed about feeling the rub. Survived over 50 years, then I touched it, what a bummer.

[@robertromero8692]

Impressed with your knowledge and expertise.

[@eloyvalles7142]

Excellent tutorial !

[@cruzaguinaga353]

Glad to find this video. Thank you.

[@AudioNovice]

Great Video I learned a lot from your video

[@packers1m704]

Very good video

[@RSavlogging511]

Nice nice nice very very very

[@samuelsalins8309]

Good job 🔊 👍

[@midmodaudio6576]

excellent video

[@gwenael0.136]

hi i have just got a pair of those , i need to change the rurrounds of the woofer unit , i pulled thefirst one out but i scrapped it to the bare metal of the basket , it had a thick ring of some old shoool carboard like mateiral , i am now wondering if i should havce left it

[@coreyfellows9420]

And your RIGHT do one at a time ...

[@thomasfeehan2790]

Hi folks can tell me where to get those pots ? Thx

[@sellsubz]

Good video

[@texasound1]

Thanks

[@blazefox3747]

you should have more subs

[@vintagestereo5491]

can you tell me what size caps I need to recap them, I have Acoustic Research AR-3A speakers and I need to recap them

[@coreyfellows9420]

www.ebay.com/itm/190640486585 Here ya go buddy !!

[@davidknight2591]

I have a pair of AR 3 & A pair of AR3A would like to have restored. How much would that cost approximately. I purchased both new in mid 1960's. I would like to have the AR3 converted to AR3a if feasible for more mid range

[@texasound1]

You can get in touch with us through our email or phone in the video description.

[@craigf3624]

I don't think those are the original covers, they weren't glued in, they were held with velcro. The material had a lot more stables in it. It looks to me like someone made a new cover?

[@BorliBear-acqua]

well, when the very expensive Infinity RS II from California arrived in Germany in the late 70s, the capacitors had been changed with SIEMENS type ones, and the crappy pots had been removed and preplaced by solid resitors immediately. Crap Made in the U.S.A. Presumably Insiders know what happens to the loudspeaker bead of Infinity chassis dissolve in around 2 decades ...

[@foobarmaximus3506]

I'm just thankful that you work on speakers and not something more critical, like a human beings. LOL Let's just be happy that you're not a doctor and leave it at that. Whew! What a mess.

[@Chokechain1111]

Good vid ,great info ,what's your opinion on vintage infinity speaker's ?

[@foobarmaximus3506]

Some of them were pretty good when they were new. Did that help you? lol

[@jlsagely6892]

Where are you in Texas? I’m near Frisco.

[@jlsagely6892]

Ahhhh....Austin. Was born in Austin.

[@coreyfellows9420]

Hey whats up with you.

[@TheOzthewiz]

The sound of those AR's, after all that work , sound like CRAP! I bought a pair of AR-3a's in 1964 (new) for $400 for the pair, but those sounded VERY NICE. Maybe that's because I was driving them with HK "Citation A" and "Citation B" preamp/amp. I think the higher damping factor of the "solid state" electronics tightened up the bass response of those woofers. As for those tweeter level controls, they started to go down the toilet after about 2 years of ownership. To be fair I had the same problem with a pair of Infinity Q2's that I traded up to in '78. I don't know what it was/is with the POOR quality of American made products, but I guess it is what it is!!

[@evertonseymour7050]

Upgrade the electronics the speaker box is solid construction. The speaker with sound great like a $10,000 speaker.