Will ARC VT-100 drive Dynaudio C-1's

I've owned the C2's and currently the C4's. The NA Sales Manager for Dynaudio once told me he's heard the C2's sound quite nice with the ARC VT-100. I drive my C4's with a Plinius SA-102 (moderate power @ 125WPC in 8 ohms), which I preferred over a pair of powerful Sim Audio monoblocks.

Mind you, if you want to drive the C1's to concert level dB's, the ARC may fall a bit short in some cases, however, for normal / moderate listening levels, I think you'd be just fine.

The C-1 is a wonderful speaker, ruthlessly revealing of anything in the food chain, exposing the weakest link.

While the ARC is a fine sounding amp and in moderate size room will be more than adequate, to really make the C-1's sing you will need 250 watts or more per ch.

While I have heard suggestions that ss amps work best on this speaker because of the low sensitivity, a big tube amp lifts them to a special plateau.

It all depends on how big your room is. In a smaller room yeah they should work great together.

i think the C1s will work fine with VT100 in a mid sized room, though i'm not a huge fan of that particular tube amp.

i would like to try VTL 450s on the C1 as well as Krell 400cx.

i had the Pass X250.5 and it was a very good match for these speakers. i use BAT integrated now as i'm not as big into 2 channel.