ARC vt100mkiii Questions?


I brought one of these 2ndhand lately. The amp had both side boards inside replaced and only the transformers were old. So, it is not broken in. Well, I would like to get advice from other owners about its bass responds. It seems on some music esp. acoustic double bass, the bass is a bit soft and undefined but on others like big symphonies, it sounds quite right with good dynamics. But overall, the bass is not as tight as I would thought it is. I use JBL4425 and Haarbeths HL_5S so to think it is not the speaker’s faults. Does yours have very tight bass? What bias settings were yours set to, mine is set to 60. Thanks.
luna

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I only had the Mk1 and no it did not have really tight bass. It had good bass but not what I would call tight. Some recordings did call attention to this. Maybe with a damping factor of 8 or something this is a hint?