I sold my Melo's Ref. preamp and packed away my Monarchy DAC, so now I'm running the new ARC/DAC9 with the ARC6 into my old Krell KSA 150 amp which is wired to my Apogee Slant 8 electrostatic speakers. So I went from 4 Sovtec 6922 tubes to 10, 6h50 super tubes according to BAT.
The new sound stage became much wider and deeper than the "above combo" that I had done away with. The only problem that I had, I noticed that I had lost some of the bottom end in my music. Since the woofers in my Apogee's are only 8ins. to remedy this problem, I threw in a 10" Velodyne subwoofer. I'm running XLR cables from the top to bottom in my system, so my XLR's cables running into my Krell from the ARC6, I pulled them out and they are now running into the subwoofer and now I'm running two new XLR cables out of the subwoofer back into my Krell. The verdict is in, this was a match made in heaven, everything blends in so perfectly, and I have no complaints.
The new sound stage became much wider and deeper than the "above combo" that I had done away with. The only problem that I had, I noticed that I had lost some of the bottom end in my music. Since the woofers in my Apogee's are only 8ins. to remedy this problem, I threw in a 10" Velodyne subwoofer. I'm running XLR cables from the top to bottom in my system, so my XLR's cables running into my Krell from the ARC6, I pulled them out and they are now running into the subwoofer and now I'm running two new XLR cables out of the subwoofer back into my Krell. The verdict is in, this was a match made in heaven, everything blends in so perfectly, and I have no complaints.