Expanding Our Mission.

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Last month we got a ratty pair of AR-2ax speakers "thrown in" with a receiver we adopted. The receiver is a McIntosh MAC-4100. The adoption of unwanted Mac gear falls under our mission statement, but the Acoustic Research speakers required a ruling by our Board. It was decided that speakers and equipment older than thirty years that can trace their heritage to Henry Kloss can be placed into one of our homes.

This ruling was partially justified by seeing a KLH Six in the basement of Paul W. Klipsch's old offices. HE had adopted one of Kloss' children, and who are we to question his charity?

We refurbished the pots (which were dead beyond just "cleaning"), replaced the caps with Daytons, replaced the good condition but inappropriate foam-surround woofer on one speaker with the correct cloth surround one, applied four coats of tung oil with 0000 steel-wool inbetween, and recovered the grills with some oyster jute burlap that isn't exactly "transparent" but looks damn good (and that's what counts, right?).

We will report on the MAC 4100 at a later date. Upon arrival, it required no immediate attention (unlike the poor AR-2ax's), but nonetheless we are endeavoring to improve the 4100's presentation.