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In Reply to: I listened to VS-60 posted by Stale on October 26, 2014 at 07:56:52:
I too find the newer ARC amps to be more solid state even than solid state in some ways...not a good trend IMO. OTOH, I heard an old ARC D250 that sounded not bad at all...it was huge and had a huge power supply was a bit warm sounding but powerful and clean.
I once did a demo in London of a pair of Wilson Benesch Arc standmount speakers with an all ARC system, except for the Krell SACD standard disc spinner. The sound was simply not gelling with a ARC ref 3 preamp, REf 220 monoblocks and the Krell. The dealer apologized and rather than blaming the Krell or the relatively affordable speakers he said the problem was the 18K pair monoblocks!!! (they were ARC dealers too!). Shocking but I heard the speakers again with different amps (same Krell spinner) and the result was MUCH better.
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