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The New AR-16 -- A Best Buy from Acoustic Research
The best kind of loudspeaker is one that plays back the music on the record or tape with the greatest degree of fidelity. The best value is the loudspeaker that comes closest to this ideal at the lowest cost. This is true whether it is the music of The Stones, Coltrane, or Stravinsky. What you want from the record is exactly what the musicians, composers, and engineers put there. Nothing more, nothing less.
Acoustic Research has been designing and manufacturing high fidelity loudspeakers based on this approach for over 20 years. It is against this background of experience that we make the statement that the AR-16 is the best buy we have ever offered the public.
Performance
For a price of $100, the AR-16 offers a unique combination of uniform energy response and flat anechoic frequency response. A crossover network of much greater refinement than is found in other two-way speaker systems gives the AR-16 uniform radiation over almost as wide a frequency range and solid angle as the most expensive AR speakers.
The performance of the AR-16's 8 inch woofer has been improved to the level of most 10 inch acoustic suspension designs. With a sys tem resonance frequency of 55 Hz and near-critical damping, usable response has been extended to below 40 Hz, approximately the lowest note on the orchestral double-bass.
A new cabinet design eliminates audible diffraction effects by avoiding all unnecessary projections and allowing for the mounting of both drivers flush with the front surface.
Cabinet diffraction effects, graphically illustrated above, are absent in the AR-16 because of the elimination of unnecessary moldings and projections.
These performance characteristics, rarely combined even in far more expensive speakers, are essential for the accurate reproduction of music under actual listening conditions and for maintaining proper tonal balance for listeners in various parts of a room.
Appearance
The special cabinet construction of the AR-16 has also made possible an attractive departure in appearance from conventional speakers. The oiled walnut wood finish of the cabinet sides is continued on the front. An acoustically transparent foam grill, mounted in the center of the front baffle, is the only element that projects beyond the flush-mounted drivers.
----------- Energy response of the AR-16 speaker system. Woofer performance below 400 Hz (not shown above) is equivalent to that of most 10-inch acoustic suspension designs.
'Best-Buy' value
The AR-16 is an extremely accurate- and attractive- high fidelity reproducer. Its combination of price, performance, and styling place it at the point beyond which improvements are achieved only at disproportionately higher cost .. exactly what value is all about.
Guarantee The performance specifications of the AR-16, like those of the most expensive AR speakers, are guaranteed for five years.
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Source: Stereo Review (USA magazine)