Let's hesitate to go to ChatGPT or start using any LLM-based "oracle" for advice, assessment, or summary. These AI tools only scan the Internet (or were trained from the Internet), and then parrot-out text from random sources, meted by statistical preponderances, to put it kindly.
More to the point, the experienced, hearing, feeling people make Agon. The specific, individual experiences recounted here, with passion, are The Stuff.
While I am a "signal processing and AI guy", it is clear to anyone that the personal experiences reported here at Agon, especially with the subtle and the obvious disagreements, caveats, new ideas, and minority opinions are infinitely more valuable and thought-provoking than unthinking LLM consensus.
So +1 to gph and all the others who hear, think, feel, and write here about their real experiences. And back to the original point, I have a bunch of Mc equipment and only one ARC preamp. I sure like that preamp, and all of my family members perk up and listen to the "That sounds real!" sound when I fire it up.