Acoustic Research

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Company name Acoustic Research
Address 2950 Lake Emma Rd., Lake Mary, FL. 32746, USA
Official site Official website
Email address kannerpr@aol.com
Telephone number +1 800 969 AR4U
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General information on Acoustic Research

Acoustic Research manufactures or has manufactured the following equipment:

CD-Players
Dynamic Speakers
Solid State Amplifiers
Tape Decks
Tuners
Turntables

Acoustic Research web site (August 2000): For over fifty years AR has developed some of the most advanced audio products of its kind. Today that tradition continues with a wide selection of products which deliver high performance for any application around the home.

Antony Briggs (January 6, 2008): Henry Kloss co-founded Acoustic Research Corporation (AR) with Edgar Villchur in 1954. Villchur, a former teacher of Kloss, had conceived a novel way of building an accurate loudspeaker. Together they developed the AR Model 1, which changed the way that speakers were designed. Until then, speakers of quality had to be quite large. By using an enclosure with a sealed air cavity behind the speaker cone which acted as a spring to damp woofer motion, they were able to make less-expensive, bookshelf-size speakers. Although they were inefficient in power consumption compared to ported designs, they had extremely low distortion. The AR-1 was the first commercial acoustic suspension loudspeaker.

History of Acoustic Research

Jerry Hallaway (June 23, 2002): Acoustic Research was a USA based producer of loudspeakers, founded in 1954 by Edgar Villchur. They started out by producing an acoustically suspended loudspeaker called the AR-1. The company managed to get patents for the acoustic suspension techniques despite the fact that similar designs had been sold in the USA some 5 years earlier.

The company is perhaps better seen as an innovator in the area of marketing were they pioneered such schemes such as a 5 year return to factory warranty and aggressive advertisements campaigns that emphasised innovation and technical superiority that was indeed there to some degree but was perhaps overemphasised, much in the vein of what Bose is doing these days. Due to this and excellent reviews in USA consumer and electronic magazines the company was a clear market leader in the loudspeaker field as early as 1958. The rapid pace of expansion meant that the company often had difficulty in financing itself which in turn meant that the introduction of some products were delayed until money had been found to pay for retooling and the updates of the production lines. AR had a tendency to announce new products early anyway and late shipments meant that some customers put off buying current products and instead waited for the new models. New models were almost constantly late to market which was at that time evolving extremely rapidly due to the introduction of stereo records and consumer tape recorders.

After just a couple of years KLH had become AR's main competitor with broadly similar models and nothing that the company could do about that despite holding all the patents. While the company continued to grow in the early 60's, it lost market share and Mr. Vilchur ended up selling the company to Teledyne in 1967.

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