Does Cary stack up to ARC

kettle

your setup sounds good

you should have tried some tube rolling with the ls15

I had an ls2 and recently went to an LS5 which has all the revealing arc qualities but is also warm and very involving

I have heard great things about the cary and if it simplifys the setup, great

tom

kettle's dilema is more with long preamp to amp runs which the cary will simplify. THe LS15 doesn't have the beefed uppower transformer the older ls2 and ls5 had. So for long runs go with an ls5 (although it's all balanced inputs).

abe - did you use sovtek blue dots or red dots??
the blues are a little harder, the reds very warm,
and I hear the bugle boys/mullards have very warm tones

I will be tube rolling my ls5 and was looking to try those combos but 10 tubes at $40-50 a pop can be expensive