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[SnowmaNick]

I'm changing....

Is it because ARC is now owned by a Canadian?

Wait, are you THAT Canadian…?

 

[Joe Mac]

It's got 4000 tube hours. I can deal with that. And they're only about $550 for 4 of them. I can deal with that.

Small gain tubes can often last way longer than that even as well.

 

[Joe Mac]

Looking at a potential Audio Research LS28.

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Nice! Fancy!

And yeah it has an assignable HT bypass so you can connect the front pre outs from the arcam to any input and assign that input as the HT bypass on the AR preamp.

 

[Mather]

Is it because ARC is now owned by a Canadian?

Wait, are you THAT Canadian…?

Well apparently I might be able to get 50% off anything ARC... maybe... but honestly the only thing I can afford that they have currently is the LS28 even with the discount, or older Ref units.

But also there is a lot of ARC stuff around on sale pretty much all the time. A local has the LS28 with only 800 hours for $6500 CAD Which is about 4Gs USD. So it would work well, and work well with that Benchmark I think. They upgraded to the LS28SE recently so there's a lot of the 28s around because people traded up.

But I mean this is all still speculative. But I think this is what I'm going to aim for. Or if a deal shows up on the Musical Fidelity Nu Vista 800.2 I will still heavily consider that. But one near me sold recently...

 

[SnowmaNick]

Well apparently I might be able to get 50% off anything ARC... maybe...

Can you be my new best friend?

 

[Mather]

Can you be my new best friend?

Haha yeah well like I said, this is not a sure thing by any means. But I MAY be able to. Maybe.

 

[Mather]

But even if I can't get 50, I can make a used 28 and a used benchmark work.

 

[Mather]

Can you be my new best friend?

But just for the record. Yes.

 

[Mather]

Ok so in terms of cables....

-sigh-

In terms of cables... I would need a new pair of RCA to run from the HT Bypass of the ARC LS28 to the Arcam... And I would need either a pair of XLRs or a pair of RCA to run from the ARC LS28 to the Benchmark, correct?

LS28


Benchmark

 

[SnowmaNick]

Ok so in terms of cables....

-sigh-

In terms of cables... I would need a new pair of RCA to run from the HT Bypass of the ARC LS28 to the Arcam... And I would need either a pair of XLRs or a pair of RCA to run from the ARC LS28 to the Benchmark, correct?

LS28
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Benchmark
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Yes.

 

[Mather]

Yes.

Ok. Ok cool. I'm going to check this stuff out on Friday and a buddy is bringing over his Sugden A21SE to hook up to my L100s just to see what it can do. Out of curiosity. Very low watts but. Class A. Just for funzies. Thanks for the help guys. It is now understood. Until I forget this all in about a week.