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 subchassis turntable will knock over turntables three times it's price.

Full List of build and mods

fully cleaned subchassis 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 DL110 MC cartridge

Previous Videos
Disassembling    • Acoustic Research XB Turntable Tear Down  
Polishing the platter    • Polishing A Turntable Platter  Acous...  
Servicing the motor    • Servicing The Haydon Motor for AR XA/...  
Rewiring and modifying the tonearm    • Rewiring The Acoustic Research Tonear...  
Pulley Upgrade    • Acoustic Research XA/XB Pulley Upgrade  

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