Bds, this is not because you had a bad experience with arc preamp, that they are not good. I used a ref5, with a pass xa100.5, i upgraded to ref5se, and it was a grat matching. Now i have upgraded to xa160.5, and it is always great combo. I made comparison at home with xp10, 20 nagra pl, and no one had the musicality, space in 3 dimension or the slam of a ref5.
You speak about confuse, sorry never had this with mine.
As you wrote, many of us have an arc-pass combo, and we are very glad of it. The right question you had to ask to yourselve was, "why doesn't it work well , what is wrong" . Many answers can be found like a problem with a tube, a bad combination with the modulation or power cables. Of course it is easier to say it doesn't match together than to try to find why it doesn't...
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