Audio Research filing for bankruptcy?

@charles1dad...thanks for that link!

Did you guys see ALL the creditors that are listed?  My Lord...

@mofimadness 

Shows how little I know. I’d assumed given Audio Reseach’s pedigree and long standing high end tenure they’d be on very solid ground financially.

Charles

I've owned AudioResearch phonostage... Notably their equipment runs extremely HOT and may need service from time to time and even more often then that. Thankfully it isn't very sophisticated so the local tech can troubleshoot  and repair it.

Sad news. They set the benchmark in the States with the SP-3 preamp. I owned a fair amount of their gear back in the day, stopping at the SP-10mkii preamp and a succession of their amps. W Z Johnson was a force in the industry- hard to get the line as a dealer-

They went through a number of different periods- from classic but very open sounding tubes to what I called their "white period" where the sound was drier, bleached, to the later Reference line which was very good. I stopped dealing with them in the '90s not for any reason other than that I changed directions. I still have my original Dual 75a that I bought new in 1975, awaiting a recap and retube (I have all the power tubes I bought from ARC 15 years ago). Still have some of the old literature showing prices with Magnepan- that was a big deal system back in the day- ARC electronics with the big Tympani panels. 

I hope for the sake of their customers and the legacy of the brand that this gets turned around. 

One of the ARC execs just posted on What's Best- company is open, running, they hope to have a new owner quickly. We have a bunch of threads on this. I reached out to TPTB to see if these could be consolidated.

Bill Hart