I prefer the ARC over the Cadence in my system. The Cadence is fanstastic. Super quiet but with my system a tad on the dark side. The ARC give much better continuity to the soundstage and all the good tube- stuff. Plus much better dynamics and ambient retrieval of space and info. Imaging density slightly better with the Cadence, but imaging in the ARC more 'realistic' if that makes sense.
I'm keeping both, but using the Cadence around 10% of the time to the ARC 90% of the time. When I get a second arm and cart for my table, I can have active use of both.
Good to know others with low output carts are using high gain in the ARC.
I'm keeping both, but using the Cadence around 10% of the time to the ARC 90% of the time. When I get a second arm and cart for my table, I can have active use of both.
Good to know others with low output carts are using high gain in the ARC.