NJguy
Super Member
I think I just cracked the code!
2 weeks ago i got lucky. I saw an ad online from a retired gentlemen that wanted to give away an AR Receiver model R, if nobody wanted it he was gonna throw it away. Well I contacted him and went to pick it up. When I arrived he had the receiver by door and also an AR XA turntable with original box and two big AR 5 speakers. Long story short he said I could take them all! I did!
Last few days ive been obsessing over the XA. The platter has a melted mat on it (the pictured one is a mat I put on top to make the photo look better) and crusted and hard to remove. Got most of it off with heat gun, scrapping, wd40... Then i started googling info and found this thread. I always like to try to date my vintage gear.
Well aftervreading this entire thread i looked all over the xa and didnt see a date until i took a closer look at the label on the box. You can barely see it but its there, 11-16-70. Thats probably the shipping date, but you figure the date of birth cant be much sooner than that since its shipped from AR itself.
The serial number seems to be 170247 the 1 seems odd and small but based on other info here I dont think this unit could be a 5 digit serial number. So it must be a six digit. So we have a confirmed serial number and date.
2 weeks ago i got lucky. I saw an ad online from a retired gentlemen that wanted to give away an AR Receiver model R, if nobody wanted it he was gonna throw it away. Well I contacted him and went to pick it up. When I arrived he had the receiver by door and also an AR XA turntable with original box and two big AR 5 speakers. Long story short he said I could take them all! I did!
Last few days ive been obsessing over the XA. The platter has a melted mat on it (the pictured one is a mat I put on top to make the photo look better) and crusted and hard to remove. Got most of it off with heat gun, scrapping, wd40... Then i started googling info and found this thread. I always like to try to date my vintage gear.
Well aftervreading this entire thread i looked all over the xa and didnt see a date until i took a closer look at the label on the box. You can barely see it but its there, 11-16-70. Thats probably the shipping date, but you figure the date of birth cant be much sooner than that since its shipped from AR itself.
The serial number seems to be 170247 the 1 seems odd and small but based on other info here I dont think this unit could be a 5 digit serial number. So it must be a six digit. So we have a confirmed serial number and date.