bifwynne
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| $510.00 for an Aluminum cover for the ARC Ref. 10? P.S. -- I think $510 is over the top (pun intended). My goodness, it's just stamped aluminum. | |
| $510.00 for an Aluminum cover for the ARC Ref. 10? Kinda glad that when ARC did the SE upgrade on my Ref 5 they kept the original aluminum top. IMO, I like the black metal top better than a see through plastic job. As an aside, I've read comments from some who say that the tops on the Ref 5 SE and... | |
| Quatro Wood CT VS. 5A's Johnny R ... I don't understand your explanation about using a rear firing tweeter. Stan's question seems reasonable.I thought the main technical underpinning of Vandy speakers is that they use time coherent drivers. If a tweeter is firing backwar... | |
| ARC ref 210 vs ref 150 Mickey, you wrote "[w]ith regards to the pre, it needs to be matched with an amp with a fairly high input impedance. The Ref 150 SE is listed on the ARC website as having one of 300 kOhms and that should be sufficient. Is that the same with the Re... | |
| ARC ref 5SE current or past owners Icorem ... again, if you find a better match for your awesome looking AudioNet MAX mono amps, then you most definitely should go for it. If you are still in the investigative stage, keep looking.But I think the volume control setting on the Ref 5 ... | |
| The New Audio Research Reference 6 Well put Frank. | |
| The New Audio Research Reference 6 @Taters ... now that is funny!!@Jwm ... to some extent I get your point. I have traveled the long road of ARC product development. Many times, I scratched my head thinking, ... I don't get it. For example, moving from the PH-7 phono pre to the PH-... | |
| ARC ref 5SE current or past owners Icorem, you posted that "[w]hen hooked to the RCA input the ref5 sounded very good but as I said the volume level was at 50 and up so I won't go for the ref5 as these limitations might cause problems in the future." With respect, your post is a bi... | |
| beryllium vs diamond There have been older posts in other threads that compared BE dome tweeters to other types of dome tweeters. My general recollection is that BE dome tweeters are much stiffer and lighter than most other (if not all) types of dome tweeter materials... | |
| ARC ref 210 vs ref 150 I own the Ref 150 SE. It's a wonderful sounding amp. As some may know, ARC approved the use of KT-150 tubes in the "regular" Ref 150. IMO, the KT-150s bring a sense of depth and hue to the music. IMO, my amp is warmer sounding with KT-150s than th... | |
| ARC ref 5SE current or past owners Icorem,Just checked the Audionet website. The problem *IS* your amp's input impedance: RCA: 37 kOhm, 100 pFXLR: 3 kOhm, 100 pFNo wonder you had a different result when using the RCA and XLR inputs. The XLRs are *WAY* below what ARC recommends (20K... | |
| Something new from ARC Frank ... I am hoping ARC will post more pics and stats on this beauty. I would like to see the innards.The advance announcement says the power supply is advanced. I wonder how. Clearly there are circuit changes ... the Ref 6 has 6 audio tubes in ... | |
| Tube Watts vs. Solid State Watts - Any credence? Thanks Al ... the problem is my misuse of terminology. Perhaps a better way for me to think about my amp's performance window is that it does not appear to choke when asked to deliver power. Perhaps that is because I am not really tasking the amp ... | |
| Tube Watts vs. Solid State Watts - Any credence? Al and Ralph ... help me with the terminology. When I think of headroom, I think of an amp's ability to handle short term dynamic transients, which is part of real music ... especially classical music.To be more specific, my tube amp has a 1040 jo... | |
| ARC ref 5SE question Icorem ... I can't offer comments about how the Ref 5 SE will compare to the other models you mention in your OP. But I do own the ARC Ref 5 SE. I already shared my personal reactions in a parallel thread you started. If you can arrange a no-buy c... |