Seriously considering selling my mega-buck SET monoblocks and tube pre-amp, now that I have a month on the Arcam.
Tubes still provide that sweet liquidity and dimensionality that SS will never touch, but what you gain in bass definition, transient speed, and dynamics perhaps makes up for that, without losing out on accurate harmonic portrayal and timbre. And that's just for two-channel...
This Arcam is far more impressive with multichannel. It will seriously make you re-think the antiquated and relatively flat-sounding "two-channel superiority" thing...
Tubes still provide that sweet liquidity and dimensionality that SS will never touch, but what you gain in bass definition, transient speed, and dynamics perhaps makes up for that, without losing out on accurate harmonic portrayal and timbre. And that's just for two-channel...
This Arcam is far more impressive with multichannel. It will seriously make you re-think the antiquated and relatively flat-sounding "two-channel superiority" thing...