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Stupidgood: Ars Sonum

There are lots of "terms of art" used by audiophools to describe sound and equipment. I propose a new one - stupidgood - a piece of equipment that blows you away, as good as it gets (more or less), and the price or the looks of it makes you incredulous as to how good the equipment is. Of course, I did not come with the term; that would by Bobby P. (Mr. von Merlin) describing the Ars Sonum integrated amplifier. I've had separates from ARC, Joule, LAMM, and CAT, and I can tell you, the Ars Sonum is stupidgood driving Merlin VSM-MXes, which can driven very easily be this little 30 watt gem.
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Has anyone had any experience with ars-sonum driving any speaker other than the Merlins??
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Doubtful. Although the Stereophile reviews was with two different speakers, neither Merlins.
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swampwalker
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Anybody with the Ars located in the northeast. I wouldn't mind pulling some $ out of my system fight now (VAC Ren-Joule VZN-80, VSM-MMs).
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swampwalker
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Of course, what I mean is I'd like to hear one!
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signaturesound
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Give me or Bobby @ Merlin a call. While we will probably not be able to get one for you to listen to at your home (a back order of close to 20 units prevents that), if you make a trip upstate NY we may be able to arrange a listen.

BTW, I coined the term Stupid Good years ago! :-) I can still remember the look Stu McCreary gave me when I used the term to describe the Golden Tube SE-40. :-) In fact, I used the term in print in my follow up comments to the First "Tube Fest" article in Vol 5, No 3 of Positive Feedback magazine waaay back in 1993! Sorry for going OT... can't beleive its been almost 15 years!
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