AR Chronos F25

[fmueller]

Is anybody familiar with these speakers? I'd like to find out a bit more, for example were they sold in the USA, personal experiences, anything really.

To give a bit of background, my brother bought those speakers ages ago in Germany when they were new. He still has them and loves them. From what I heard, at the time AR was trying to gain a foothold in the European market, especially Germany. Apparently AR failed in this endeavor and essentially retreated to the US. A friend of ours, who was trading in HiFi equipment at the time, had already fallen in love with AR and managed to snap up a pair of AR Chronos F25 for a bargain price, which he sold to my brother.

My brother just send me a copy of the sales brochure. Image attached.

 

[Drugolf]

Whats ages ago?

 

[Boonaroo]

Those look to be quite good speakers. It is sort of hard to read the brochure even when you blow it up but looking at the drivers I would think he has a quality speaker. The tweeter looks to be a ring driver which many companies use in their higher end models, Polk being one in their LSi line from a few years ago.

 

[fmueller]

@Drugolf - Ages ago is any time when I still had hair on my head!

The brochure is from 2002, so yup, they are not AR3 vintage.

@Boonaroo - The pdf of the brochure is a little large to upload here, but I put it on my site:

http://www.fmueller.com/pdf/Acoustic_Research_Chronos_2002_en_de.pdf

In Europe, they were Acoustic Research's top of the line at the time, but I heard AR had a special lineup for the European market. I'd be very curious to have that confirmed or denied, ie were those speakers sold in the US also, or were they Europe only?