The audio research arc line- from top to bottom.


I have been searching for a balanced tube preamp for some time, recently started to look at the arc line.
I understand that the ref-5 is the best at the moment. I am curious what is second best? Is it the ls-26? Or the ref2 mkII?
Where do the others fall.
pedrillo
I was not talking about your comments about lines you carry but rather your negative inferences concerning products that compete with lines you carry. I hardly think you would have called Efner's statement laughable if he had stated that an Atmasphere preamp was the second best in the world (as ridiculous as any "best" statement about any product is). The fact that you do not think it necessary to disclose that you are a dealer of a competing line of a product you are disparaging speaks volumes.

As for my bucket, it's filled with the same thing your peddling. Maybe now that I have explained my reasoning which was clearly too hard for you to understand maybe you can follow me. Not sure though, it is perhaps too complicated.
What is the order of the preamps from best to 2nd best and so forth.
Are the increments large after the ls-26 or should I say after the ref 3 ?
Buckets of rain,
Buckets of tears,
Audiofeil has got those buckets coming out of his ears...
Poets and losers unite.

Both are losers.

And one ear is the biggest of them all.
Pedrillo...sorry didn't mean to sidetrack your original thread. I am done. I hope you get additional answers concerning your question on ARC preamps.