A 60 year old turntable design is still going strong!

It still is one of the the BEST and most sought after TT on the vintage market.

It was the first to incorporate the T bar design. All that followed were following a wonderful, simple design.. 

For a light weight, it's one that should be, in the WORK WELL nostalgia class of audio gear. 

Buddy, AR has a full blown CULT following and with good reason..

Until you actually hear a tricked out AR.. I'd keep my opinions about HIGH quality gear to myself.. They are one of the BEST nuggets out there IF you can find the 78-9 dollar AR..

Russco.. NUT here.. I have a few.. Look at my page here on AG. There is one in transition from a local FM station in the area.

Older is good, look at Farm Girl.. LOL

Regards

Great design with a mediocre, but easy to set up arm.  Linn used the design and enveloped it with their bs in order to claim shortcomings were due to bad set up and inferior magic.  

Still....  I had two ARs myself and my father used his AR with the original Shure cartridge (a $0.1 upgrade in the originals purchase) to his death and loved it.  

I used a late version with a Grace 707 with decent results until I moved to MC carts.  

Lots of clones of the original AR table.  That means the original design was excellent.

Love the design of the AR table.

So much can be done to bring it to another level of performance for vary little effort. Plus it looks great in its simplicity!

That TT, the AR-AU amp and AR-3 Speakers would be one very cool vintage set up!

https://www.stereophile.com/content/acoustic-research-integrated-amplifier

A bit of audio history! He was one of true pioneers in the beginning!

https://community.classicspeakerpages.net/topic/10071-ar-demonstration-room-in-grand-central-station...

I have a Thorens TD-125 with Shure SME 3009 tonearm that I purchased on R&R in Hong Kong in 1969 for $250 U.S. and a Miracord 50H changer purchased in a Marine Corps exchange on Okinawa in that same year.
The Thorens/Shure has a Hana M MC cartridge while the Miracord has a Hana SL MC caretridge.  The Thorens system includes a Krell PAM-5 preamp (1980's) and Martin Logan ReQuest 'speakers.  The power amps are 100-watt pure class A monoblocks designed and constructed by me in 1989/90 and still in use in August 2021with no malfunctions to date (3-part Audio Magazine construction article published in 1995).  The sound of vinyl on that system is very good.
The ELAC (Miracord 50H) is in use with an ordinary integrated amp and inexpensive bookshelf 'speakers.  It sounds OK, which is OK because I use it to check on my new phono preamp designs before trying them in the main system.  That system includes a VPI TNT 3.5 turntable, JMW Memorial 10" tonearm with Hana M MC cartridge, my third generation phono preamp design, Anthem D2v preamp/processor, and B&W 802D 'speakers.
I purchased the TNT 3.5 in August 2001 and had to replace its motor several years ago.  That turntable/tonearm yield the best sound from vinyl I have heard, despite their age.  The Hana M cartridge and my phono preamp are largely credited with the improvement.
Norm Thagard