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  1. Happy New Year Everyone. May 2012 bring you and yours Health, Happiness and Prosperity. Minh Luong
  2. Please take a moment to remember Mr. Edgar Villchur, the founder of Acoustic Research. Enjoy Life & Music through AR speakers Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone...
  3. Happy Thanksgiving to Everyone and to the People I look up to. Enjoy the Good Eat and Fine Drink but don't forget to Exercise so you can do it again and again... Enjoy Life & Music
  4. It wasn't the Name, the Designer or the High Price Tag that interest me! I have never heard of such a Dynamic, Low Distortion and Transparent Sound from such a small Speakers with a Simple System and no Room Treatment whatsoever...! Peter Lyngdorf is very friendly and humble who concentrate only on explaining what he does to come up with such a compact system rather than compare and bad mouth about speakers from other Manufacturers... to me that is much more productive and positive about Him. I can't afford this Steinway Lyngdorf S-Series System anyway but I still love what I heard and I am just sharing my personal experience to other members in the AR Forum, that's all Folks! Minh Luong
  5. Innovation has always been a hallmark for Peter Lyngdorf. Ever since his entry into the hi-fi industry in mid 1970's he has been capable of changing how audio products are being conceived and sold - both globally and in his native Scandinavia. In a constant pursue of better ways to replay music Peter has founded or co-founded several world famous audio companies, for instance Dali Loudspeakers along with full or part ownership of many other highly esteemed audio brands such as NAD Electronics, Gryphon Audio and Snell Acoustics... http://timeout.watchprosite.com/?show=forumpost&fi=686π=3057806&ti=506316&s=
  6. I went to a Hi-Fi/Home Theater Show in NYC last week and saw and heard quite a few decent but pricey Stereo Systems. The Steinway Lyngdorf S-Series was my favorite but cost $22,000 for the little System without the CD/Blu-Ray player! http://www.steinwaylyngdorf.com/ http://www.stereophile.com/news/052107steinway/ Minh Luong
  7. Good Morning Peter

    I had sent 7 Hi-Res AR-3a images to you and wonder have you received them. Please keep me posted. Thanks.

    Minh Luong

  8. Hi muluong303, that's a good image. Pls send it to:

    pbreuningerTAS@aol.com. JPG is ok. I'll attribute it.

    Thanks,

    Peter

  9. The main reason I choose the Cello Amati over the AR-LST was due to all drivers, crossover components and cabinets are 20 years younger so they will definitely last much longer than the original AR-LST for my music enjoyment. I dislike the extra fuse, auto transformer and step dialer and the huge cap that is no longer necessary in today amplifier technology(that was why I ask Roy Allison if I can get rid of them all together in early '90?) I did save my last pair of AR-LST for serious break apart operation but at the end just give up on it since I don't want to kill the historical valued AR-LST just for my own curiosity...! AR did help Mark Levinson to built the tweeters, midranges and woofers. Alex Barsotti did see Mark many times during those years in AR factory in MA... Minh Luong
  10. Hi Tom "There is no intention whatsoever on my part to “mislead others or spread the wrong,” as you say." I didn't said it was you but the people who love to copy what you said and spread the rumor that really steer others who know less off track. Anyway, I had said all I could and know how and not planing to go any further in term of showing proofs and graphs since I have none on hands! I have nothing to do with Mark Levinson and he is not my God neither! I just being honest and said what I know and express myself clearly as personal experience for owning both the AR-LST and Cello Amati speakers so people know what they are. I used to own 7 pairs of AR-LST speakers so that if you want to say I am passionate, it was about AR-LST and not Cello Amati speakers. I have never bad mouth about the AR-LST or try to promote the Amati speakers. The bottom line is, It was totally a personal preference of mine and that is all it came down to. The pictures you attached seems like the picture of the back of the AR-LST brochure I scan the front of. It was really dark and small and I can hardly see anything! So much for high resolution scans! The original price for the Cello Amati was $10000 with AR drivers and $16500 for the Amati Pro with Dynaudio drivers and Paul Jayson was the designer for the Amati Pro(Sorry for miss-spelled his last name in the previous post!) Tom, a friend is more I need in life than a pair of speakers no matter how much they Cost! Minh Luong
  11. http://www.marklev.com/history/index.html http://www.marklev.com/cello/index.html
  12. " ... Meanwhile another high-end giant was doing his part for the Audio Preservation Society. Mark Levinson, the man created by many as having invented the modern high-end movement, added a line of speakers to his Cello range, the first based on a near-forgotten model from one of the most venerable of all hi-fi brands: Acoustic Research's AR-LST. You have to be old enough to remember the days of Labour governments to recall this product, known for staggering performance which couldn't be accessed by the amplifiers of the day. Levinson revived the LST, knowing that the modern amplifiers such as his Cellos could milk the speaker for all it was worth. And, to everyone's surprise, Acoustic Research was more than happy to let this crazed audio maven raid its parts bin. " by Ken Kessler of Hi-Fi News & Record Review
  13. Gary On the crossover shown, the two deep blue Culver caps seems like were replacement of the original? If both of your AR98LS don't have obvious sounding problem, I would suggest don't do anything with the caps change yet unless you are very handy and had done many soldering on small electronics parts before. Cold solder is the worst case on cap change! Beside you have very limited space to squeeze in the much bigger polypropylene capacitors with the same uF value even for the smaller 250VDC rated one. I would remove the yellow sponge shown on the speaker grills since it hurts the dispersion of the tweeter and midrange more than tighten up the focus as you may think! Minh Luong
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