Re: AR9 speakers from about 1980.



Jim McShane wrote:

> > Patrick Turner wrote...
>
> A BUNCH OF CRAP
>
> You know what - screw you Turner... I gave you a
> lot of useful information. I know those speakers
> VERY well, and I thought I could help. I didn't
> count on your massive overblown ego being
> such a barrier.

Thankyou for whatever info you have tended to this discussion.
I need all the constructive help I can get to make the AR speakers sing.

>
>
> I have all the original blueprints on them. I would
> have been happy to share them with you, but you're
> so f'ing smart you figure it out. BTW why do you
> need a diagram if you are such a wizard ?

Phil A put me onto a site which had the original Xover schemo.
I was much obliged.

Then I have since worked out all the rest about these speakers
independantly, without help, and for the benefit of the world's
owners of these AR9 so that they may share what i have found.
I ain't done yet, and a couple of scans of the Z as found and response
will be made.
I don't give a *** if what i find is different to the original data or
blue prints.
People would want to know what i find now, and maybe compare
wth what was done 25 years ago.
I am being transparently constructive in my criticism, and i respect
now sacred cows.

> I'd burn them before I'd let you see them. I'm sorry
> I gave you the link to the AR site.
>
> BTW, my AR-9s crimp connectors work fine after
> 25 years.

I found a couple of loose nut&bolt connectors, and at least
3 connectors to speakers were loose, and likely to further suffer from
the the inevitable
metal fatigue which makes push on speaker connectors loosen.

With loose ones you can either solder them up well,
or remove them and tighten them with a squeeze with pliers,
then force them back onto the spade, maybe they last tight another
25 years. Maybe they break loose in 5 years.

But soldering them is by far the best.

When they brought in solid state amps, the engineers breathed a sigh of
relief
because the whole circuit could be soldered up, no more plug and socket
joints.
But almost straightaway ppl started trying to cheapen construction costs
with
plug and socket joins, and it it wasn't until the age of the PC that
they began to get "temporary" joins to be reliable, since by then
only gold plated parts with carefully worked out amounts of
spring pressure on contacts were able to be reliable enough for computer
use.

I will always solder, and never use crimps or slide on plugs for
speakers.

It is best practice.

> Phil Allison is right about you. You're just an obnoxious
> blowhard.

I'm fully aware I get right up some folks, and i really couldn't give a
damn.
One of us is upset, and it ain't me.

Patrick Turner.



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>
> Jim McShane
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