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ARC SP 10....how good is it really????

I know there was a recent thread regarding ARC SP 11 vs SP 10 and the consensus was that the 10 was better.

My question is can an Audio Research SP 10 compete with today's top contenders??? I am a vinyl person- so tell me - how good is this pre-amp compared to todays and how good is the phono section compared to, lets say, Lamm, Herron etc????

Thanks

Rick
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kana813
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I owned a SP10, and it can not compare to MFA Luminescence or any of the Sonic Frontier Line series preamps or the older SFL-2.

And don't buy a tube preamp that needs a transformer or oil in paper caps to couple it's poorly designed output stage.

If you're a vinyl person and don't want to spend $10K, forget the tubes and look for a used Rowland preamp & phono stage. Then you can just listen to the music.
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