My favorite local certified golden eared dealer sold mainly Audio Research as his reference and Rogue for similar good tube sound for less.
In more recent years the Rogue Hybrid Class D gear took over as his favorite go-to.
Rogue Audio and Audio Research Comparisons
Recently I've purchased a Rogue ST-100 amp and enjoying quite a bit. My personal opinion is it punches way above its price point and in my opinion has a lot of the Audio Research sonic characteristics. Curious has anyone owned both Rogue and ARC and what are your thoughts? I'm not referring to the current Ref series but the older such as REF110, REF150 and REF75SE.