Acoustic Research/Perfect Vision (1 Viewer)

[Bill Turetsky]

The latest Perfect Vision has gone TOTAL BANANAS about the AR HC6 HT package.

Has anyone listened to them? I had watched AR disappear via Jensen, etc. over the years and really wonder if it was 'revivable.'

How one can get GREAT sound in 5 speakers and a sub for $700 is really beyond me. A decent bookshelf stereo pair costs $400-500 and any DECENT sub keeping out 'boom' etc. runs many hundreds.

Comments appreciated.

 

[Brett DiMichele]

Bill,

First off AR has nothing to do with Jensen and they never

have. AR was bought out by Recoton who coincidenaly owns

Jensen and about 50 other massive companies.

I don't think AR ever lost it's quality I just think they

lost thier marketing abilities. But IMHO AR is back better

than ever. The Hi-Res Series, The Phantom Series are going

to be remembered for decades just like the Vintage AR3's and

AR1's and some of the products that were made when Teledyne

took over.

I can not vouch for the HC6 package because I have not heard

that setup. But from what I see when I look at it. It looks

like gorgeous piano black cabinents and carbon fiber cone

woofers (not exactly cheap stuff) The Phantom's also use

Carbon Fiber cone's from Illusion Audio so I wonder if there

is a correlation there.. Perhaps that's what they are using

in the HC6 package.

At any rate I think AR is a great company, It's all I use

and I have been treated very well when I put in a service

request.. (when I got my AR9's one spike was missing, I sent

all the spikes back and they sent be the Billet Aluminum NHT

Spikes instead) FYI NHT is also owned under Recoton as the

Parent Company.

 

[Brett DiMichele]

I wanted to add one other interesting bit of info.. One of
the well known audio mags rated the AR1's as a Class B
Product.. Class B can range from 500 a speaker to 10K a speaker.. That's a fairly high mark to acheive IMHO..
Of course Class A is reserved for some very high priced
components that I know I will never be able to afford. And
to be honest some of the speakers that live in that class
are shall we say "odd" I laugh when I look in the dream
system section of audioreview at some of these whacky speakers.
I am sure some of them sound great, but you REALLY gotta be
an "audiophile" to live with some of those speakers. Especialy
some of the Horns that look like a tuba and speaker had an
illigitimate child
But I digress!