Acoustic Research, Inc. was founded in 1952 and incorporated on August 10, 1954 by Edgar Villchur and his student Henry Kloss. Edgar Villchur was a loudspeaker engineer and in 1961 introduced the AR Turntable. The AR turntable showed everyone else how to isolate a unified platter/arm support assembly from the outside world. It was floated on ultra low resonance springs and ignored anything up to a 5.6 on the Richter Scale.
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Most belt drive tables today, 40 years later, still use the basics of Villchur's design. Many AR turntable models are still sought after today. In particular, the mid-1980 models are highly modifiable to become first-rate vinyl playback units.
These are classic wooden units of high quality and solid walnut cabinet. These units play at 33 & 45 rpm and are belt-drive turntables. The platter is of cast aluminum 3.3lb (1.5kg) suspended with a spring-suspended T-bar (sub-chassis) that greatly reduced acoustic feedback. Acoustic Research pioneered the three-point suspension turntable and created many classic models still enjoyed today. The belts employed in these prized turntables are different in terms of length, width and thickness. The original AR-XA, produced between 1962 and 1975, was a bona fide classic...it was the best-selling turntable of all time. It was simple, well-built, but definitely retro.
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Audiovox Corporation Headquarters/ Audiovox Electronics Corporation
180 Marcus Boulevard Hauppauge, New York 11788 USA
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Phone: 631-436-6499 |
