Is there any one piece of vintage gear you most wished you owned?

OP,

Happily, you only cost me $500. for the pair of AR-2ax speakers I just bought/fixed. Happily they fit in my office, and sound great with my little 10wpc Luxman Tube Amp. (they are not very efficient). so, out with the small Wharfedales and Sub, in with these.

I posted photos of the speakers and crossover work here

https://systems.audiogon.com/users/elliottbnewcombjr.

Glad you got me to do this, I’ve missed them since they were stolen in 1973.

Thanks for this, I just decided, I'm going to re-acquire a pair of AR-2ax speakers.

My college days speakers, many an all-nighter with Alison Steele (the nightbird) and Cousin Brucie 1967 to 1970

Got ransacked, 1973, have missed them ever since. I'll use them in my Garage System, move my current B&W bookcase speakers to my shop, retire the small Boston's there.

Oh yeah, and notice, they had level controls for the mid and tweet.

Found a pair of AR-2ax in Illinois, bought them, wish me luck.

Thanks for this discussion.

Now, my garage/shop system, recently purchased a nice Yamaha CR-1040, 80 wpc, I run two sets of speakers. It has a hard to find part that blows if you push them too hard.

For these AR-2ax and the shop pair, I may buy a CR-2040, 120 wpc (without that problem), sell the CR-1040. I replaced the burnt out lights, looks and sounds terrific, don't need/want tubes down there.

Make that 'You Cost Me $750'.

After I got them in place, a good listen to familiar music, I discovered 1 tweeter is blown. I requested and seller gave a partial refund.

So, a pair of new tweeters, might as well put 4 new level controls, so now the total will be $740. Luckily I can do this myself.

Actually, I'm kinda glad it happened this way.