ARC Ref 5se inferior to LS28?

^^^^What they said.

IMHO what else would he say?  Unless he has a Ref 5SE you can compare and he gets a sale one way or the other.  Doesn't make him bad just a good  businessman.

+1bdp24 my first piece from ARC was the ph5 when I got back into vinyl. I was interested in a CJ to match my linestage but my dealer convinced me the ph5 is the newest and greatest from ARC huge improvement over the ph3se.  He sold both CJ and ARC at the time.

i didn't even have it broken in before the Ph 6 came out.  No complaints as the ph 5 fit my needs at the time but it made me feel like I did not get their best or certainly most current.  

MIT is the same way but even worse.  

Face it - most of us are trickle downers!