The Acoustic Research ARXB is astonishing value for money. A vintage audiophile turntable killer that punches well above it's weight!
Even in stock form this humble American made, belt driven suspended sub-chassis turntable will knock over turntables three times it's price.
Full List of build and mods
- fully cleaned sub-chassis and bearing wells.
- new delrin thrust pads
- new ceramic ball bearing for tonearm well
- polished all bearings and platter
- upgraded vertical tonearm bearings to sapphire cups
- swapped in a technics arm wand with sme headshells
- stripped and serviced haydon motor
- new capacitors, power and rca cables
- new plinth built from pine and meranti
- painted the top plate a bit creatively
- currently playing between a Shure m75e MM cartridge and an Denon DL-110 MC cartridge
Previous Videos
Disassembling - https://youtu.be/msV59ejAOSE
Polishing the platter - https://youtu.be/co2-fe1AzJA
Servicing the motor - https://youtu.be/JUfuqTtUDzA
Rewiring and modifying the tonearm - https://youtu.be/NtSozy1jDtE
Pulley Upgrade - https://youtu.be/Koj6SY9FIaU
0:00 Introduction
0:03 Disassembling
0:34 Polishing the platter
1:28 Servicing the motor
5:08 Rewiring and modifying the tonearm
7:06 Cleaning the chassis
7:20 Building a new plinth
12:42 Putting everything back together
16:28 The finished product