The surround on the woofers on these over time disintegrate. It's simply a time thing. I had a pair while working for a company that was developing voice processing algorithms. I was provided a .wav file with some preliminary results and was asked to listen for artifacts. I played the file at home in my studio on my ar18s and could hear little unwanted sounds all over the place. I wrote down when these artifacts happened on the time line and reported to the research engineer. When we listened to the files on his studio monitors in the office I pointed out when the artifacts happened. On the AR18s the problems were obvious. You could barely hear it in the guy's office. When he zoomed Olin on the waveform you could see little jogs in thd waveform in all the places where I heard the problems. I was then known as the guy with the golden ears in the office. The original woofers have a very soft foam surround.
The surround on the woofers on these over time disintegrate. It's simply a time thing. I had a pair while working for a company that was developing voice processing algorithms. I was provided a .wav file with some preliminary results and was asked to listen for artifacts. I played the file at home in my studio on my ar18s and could hear little unwanted sounds all over the place. I wrote down when these artifacts happened on the time line and reported to the research engineer. When we listened to the files on his studio monitors in the office I pointed out when the artifacts happened. On the AR18s the problems were obvious. You could barely hear it in the guy's office. When he zoomed Olin on the waveform you could see little jogs in thd waveform in all the places where I heard the problems. I was then known as the guy with the golden ears in the office. The original woofers have a very soft foam surround.
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I have AR 28S for sale
That Woofer not original , horrible sound. AR 18S original is beautiful spekears
😅Worst AR speaker $$$ u can ever buy