I'm sure it will sound good but it is a shame that the design team want to move away from what was a popular and recognisable easily integrated ARC look ,where it was clear that the money had gone into the components rather than the housing- This looks more like VTL than Audio Research.
Also with 4 buttons on the front it doesn't look as though it has incorporated auto bias

I was informed it would have better bass, resolution and auto biasing, a new circuit board than GS 150; is this not true?
Sami

I assume, like the VT80, will not only have auto bias but will rely on fuses rather than resistors.

I hope it has auto bias but if the buttons on the front are not for selecting valves to bias what purpose do they serve ?

OK, just guessing here ...

power on/off
input bal/se
invert
mute


... that's just a guess ...

Now live on the ARC website. DAMN, looks beautiful!

Seems they are releasing a new ref model every every year now.....

Sexy!!

http://www.audioresearch.com/Content...o_front(1).png

:yes:

http://www.audioresearch.com/en-us/p...reference-160m


http://www.21hifi.com/newshifi/20180206/10a.jpg




http://www.21hifi.com/newshifi/20180206/10b.jpg

The black looks really good IMO.

$30,000 pair?