Audio Research Ref 3 Opinions


Anybody heard the new ARC Ref 3? Comments please !! in comparison to the ARC Ref 2 Mk2
soundoc
" I have no immediate plans to test NOS 6550 tubes at this time"

Guido

IMO there is absolutely no reason to do any tube rolling with this preamp
Wow, I came back to this thread to learn more of Guido's progress with burn-in, and I see that once again a bunch of posts have been removed. What happened? Another fist fight in here?
JAFOX, amazingly enough, I have been pretty good on this thread. Any idea what was nuked?
This is where I am as of last night - http://img295.imageshack.us/my.php?image=p10005384pq.jpg

Long way to go...
hi i have been reading your e-mail back and forth, i own a ref-3 and i am ready to buy some tubes are you saying i should replace my 6L6GC with the new 6550C AND HAVE BY-PASS CAPS INSTALLED or am i beter of just buying another 6L6GC IF ARC NO longer sells that tube thanks mike