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Originally Posted by 2fastdriving
Maybe I'm stupid, but I don't understand the "not a fan of tubes" comment. My ref75 has no tube sound that I can detect. It just does everything right. I had an mc452 before this, and the little arc has better bass control in my opinion.
So why not pair the arc pre with its soul mate? An arc amp, of course!
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It really depends on what speakers you use.
If you use something like an B&W 800 Diamond where the impedance range can fluctuate very wildly across the frequency range, it may be hard to find a tube amp that can manage that speaker well. You can of course get the ARC Reference 750 but there might be other issues with power consumption/heat/cooling that some prefer not to deal with.
I do find the ARC works incredibly well with a lot of SS power amps.
I've had equally good results with the Plinius SA-Reference and Bel Canto REF500Ms.