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RE: Advice for tubed preamp/amp combo under 9-10K

I have, I was able to audition some ARC gear. It sounds good but I wasn't able to get as good of a feel for it as I'd like. I've also done a lot of reading and targeted emailing on forums and essentially put myself almost back at square one.

I'm going to re-listen to the VTL over the weekend. My concern with VTL as a brand is reliability which seems to have been an issue at least for some earlier models. Also thinking back on it, it sounded quite warm and I need to re-listen to make sure that instruments I know well sound right. If I rule it out for tonal reasons then I'm going to open things up to non-auditionable gear which I'm not sure is a mistake or not.

I've read a lot about Herron Audio gear. In theory I like his approach best because his goal is to have no sonic signature and let the source determine everything. If I didn't go that way there are some new tube monos by Bob Carver that are supposed to be fantastic. I'd pair them with a modwright or PT Grand Pre.

So I'd say at this point I'm very firmly undecided.


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