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Anybody heard the new ARC Ref 3? Comments please !! in comparison to the ARC Ref 2 Mk2
Soundoc  (Threads | Answers | This Thread)

01-03-05
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02-16-05   Probably pretty good.   Magnepanmike

02-16-05   Gregm, the device under discussion is the ref 3 (mark 1). ...   Guidocorona

02-16-05   Soundoc, are you saying that the ref 3 has some of the razo ...   Guidocorona

02-16-05   I had the opportunity to listen to a friend's arc ref 1 prea ...   Bombaywalla

02-17-05   Audio research has finally added a ref 3 page to its site. ...   Guidocorona

02-23-05   For those with ref 2 mk ii's who aren't quite ready to trade ...   Klinerm

02-24-05   Dear bobaywalla, it mistifies me that you would blame the a ...   Norfish

02-24-05   Dear randy, i think that i can understand where you are com ...   Bombaywalla

02-25-05   riiiight. i believe this error in inductive reasoning is k ...   Rex

02-26-05   Bombaywalla: i think your flawed logic shows quite a bit of ...   Gmorris

02-27-05   Bombaywalla, hopefully you will get a chance to hear some o ...   Jafox

02-27-05   Ok guys: you bring up some valid arguments! jafox: i'm 100 ...   Bombaywalla

06-28-05   Any updated findings on arc ref 3? in particular, marcelo, ...   guidoc@

08-17-05   All, just yesterday i spent three hours comparing the arc r ...   Guidocorona

08-19-05   Hi all, hi guido! i missed this post, sorry! well, i've liv ...   Marcelo_cinicola

08-19-05   Marcelo, 'bingo' on all counts! detailed, open and certain ...   Guidocorona

08-19-05   Guido, i have not heard about the xchange tubes! what´s all ...   Marcelo_cinicola

08-19-05   Marcelo, this is apparently a change done on all new ref 3 ...   Guidocorona

08-20-05   Has oneobgin confirmed that this is factory made? i checked ...   Marcelo_cinicola

08-20-05   Marcelo, i reread oneobgin's posts starting at: http://foru ...   Guidocorona

08-20-05   Well i was wrong again. the tubes being swapped out are the ...   Guidocorona

08-21-05   I called arc and asked if there was a upgrade for my ref 3 a ...   Agaffer

08-21-05   Well, this gets curiouser and curiouser! the toronto dealer ...   Guidocorona

08-22-05   Ok, i talked to arc just now. all is clear to me and confirm ...   Marcelo_cinicola

08-22-05   Btw, the right tube to use, according to arc itself, is the ...   Marcelo_cinicola

08-22-05   Ok, tube swapping: the one 6l6gc is swapped in favour of a ...   Soundoc

08-22-05   Hi doc! yes, you can go back to the 6l6gc even after instal ...   Marcelo_cinicola

08-22-05   I just love it. arc has modified its semantics and is now do ...   Rgurney

08-22-05   I bet there are more "rolling updates" with other ...   Magnepanmike

08-22-05   Hmm, terrible sin indeed this rolling update. $60 of parts ...   Guidocorona

08-24-05   In a more serious mode, what is the length of the ref 3 sto ...   Guidocorona

09-16-05   I am waiting for the bypass caps to arrive to have them inst ...   Agaffer

09-17-05   Agaffer, what difference did you perceive in your amps repl ...   Guidocorona

09-17-05   I am using the vtm 200 monblocks, which replaced a theta dre ...   Agaffer

09-17-05   Thank you agaffer, keep us posted.   Guidocorona

09-18-05   Last night i sat down for a couple of hours of listening. th ...   Agaffer

09-18-05   Ok agaffer, but how did the sound differ from that of the s ...   Guidocorona

09-19-05   It didn't sound any different, at least not that i noticed.   Agaffer

10-02-05: Oneobgyn
Interesting thread and how misquoted I was. All along I told guidocorona that only the 6L6GC tube would be replaced by the 6550C. I was somewhat surprised because I am not a big fan of the 6550C--however once the tube was swapped and the bypass caps added there was a distinctly deeper bass as well as a much smoother upper end.

What to me is the $64 question is what the unit would sound like by swapping the 6550C for a KT88?

Here is a look at my system with the Ref3

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?vaslt&1049587927&read&3&4&

http://homepage.mac.com/imacdoyou86/PhotoAlbum52.html

Oneobgyn  (System | Reviews | Answers | This Thread)


10-03-05   I finally put in a 6550c from arc to compare it with the 6l6 ...   Agaffer

10-03-05   I think that the 6550c is not a drop in replacement for the ...   Gmorris

10-03-05   That's very surprising. although i didn't like the svetlana ...   Ethannnn

10-03-05   I completely agree. i am not a big fan of the 6550c either. ...   Oneobgyn

10-04-05   Oneobgyn, did you try the tube swap before changing the bypa ...   Agaffer

10-04-05   No....i took my unit to an authorized arc repair man here in ...   Oneobgyn

02-20-06   Hi all, sorry to bring back this old thread, but any one ...   Jhc

02-20-06   I have now a ref 3 that has just passed the 200 hrs break in ...   Guidocorona

02-20-06   guido imo there is absolutely no reason to do any tube rol ...   Oneobgyn

02-20-06   Wow, i came back to this thread to learn more of guido's pro ...   Jafox

02-20-06   Jafox, amazingly enough, i have been pretty good on this t ...   Guidocorona

02-20-06   This is where i am as of last night - http://img295.imagesh ...   Jhc

03-21-07   Hi i have been reading your e-mail back and forth, i own a r ...   Goofy

03-22-07   Only the very earliest ref 3's did not have bypass caps and ...   Oneobgyn

03-23-07   I humbly disagree with oneobgyn regarding tube rolling with ...   Arahl

03-25-07   this is what makes this hobby so much fun. one mans passion ...   Oneobgyn

11-10-07   I have a ref3 available for sale. it's basically brand new. ...   Boarder27


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