C-3850, C-2850 and the announced C-2450 all have 4th generation AAVA.
Only C-3850 is fully balanced.
C-3850 is not more forward in sound. It's just more natural and relaxed than even its predecessor C-3800.
As mentioned elsewhere in this forum, there is a test report of the C-3850 in German available on accuphase.de, which well describes its sonic properties.
Only C-2850 and C-2450 allow adding of phono module AD-2850.
IMHO there were always clearly audible differencies between the preamps climbing up the ladder (provided the rest of the system would not mask them).
Martin
Last edited by meltemi; 06-26-2017 at 12:32 PM.
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