ARC with CJ?

CJ amps have 100K input to accommodate tube preamps. Any preamp therefore should work if the gain is reasonable. My experience, however, has been that CJ preamps have excessive gain when used with CJ amps. Go figure.

Why would you want seems like a good question. Not that it is a bad match, but it seems to be a combo that few would pursue.

I have ARC pre with CJ power amp and I like it very much. Both units are tubed.

I have paired both an ARC LS-15 and LS-25 with a CJ MF2200. It sounded fine. I recently bought a used Sonographe SA-400 on eBay that I am going to test w/ the LS-15.

"Why would you do that?"... I suspect that some of the previous posters are shocked at the prospect of audio miscegenation represented by pairing ARC and CJ products. Yes, they overlap the same space. Yes, their reputations are build on historically different sound signatures. But go ahead and try it. Either you will like it or not.

It's good that we've beyond the days of miscegenation laws.