Audio Research Ref 3 Opinions


Anybody heard the new ARC Ref 3? Comments please !! in comparison to the ARC Ref 2 Mk2
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Wow, I came back to this thread to learn more of Guido's progress with burn-in, and I see that once again a bunch of posts have been removed. What happened? Another fist fight in here?
JAFOX, amazingly enough, I have been pretty good on this thread. Any idea what was nuked?
This is where I am as of last night - http://img295.imageshack.us/my.php?image=p10005384pq.jpg

Long way to go...
hi i have been reading your e-mail back and forth, i own a ref-3 and i am ready to buy some tubes are you saying i should replace my 6L6GC with the new 6550C AND HAVE BY-PASS CAPS INSTALLED or am i beter of just buying another 6L6GC IF ARC NO longer sells that tube thanks mike
Only the very earliest Ref 3's did not have bypass caps and were added later by ARC at N/C if the unit was returned to them. All Ref 3's now have by-pass caps

As for tubes my strongest recommendation is that tube rollling is completely unnecessary with the Ref3