Hi does anyone know what the up grade from Ref 5 to Ref 5 se is and if so does any one know who could do the work in the UK.
Contact Pedro at Absolute Sounds, he is ARC's European distributer and he can arrange to have the work completed by the UK specialist tech, you would have to ship the pre to him in London.
I used to run with a Ref5se whilst a friend was running his 40 Anniversary and the difference in SQ between the two is not subtle and is quite a gulf. I currently run with a REF10 and the evolution in SQ over the Ref5se is considerable.
(...) I am considering that or VTL 7.5 if I go the scintilla route, VTL more because there is a possibility it can drive SS amps better
Just to tell that I have listened to impressively good sound in a friend system using a VTL 7.5 driving a solid state conrad johnson premier 350. It sounded so good that when my friend got upgraditis some years ago I bought his premier 350, that was playing again in my system this evening - surely after a week of burn-in loaded with 8 ohm power resistors!
Thanks. What impressed me about the VTL is the way it drives Marty's Spectrals. I have compared it to Luxman pre driving Mephisto into TAD at a Spanish dealer's and I don't think it matches the AR Ref 10 in the positives of the latter, but I haven't compared the two directly so now I am giving VTL the benefit of doubt that it will drive SS better. Might change if compared
Hello Bonzo not sure which friend of ours has the ref 10 as I would like to hear it with a sold state amp. I'm running scintillas at the moment and loving them, could do with selling my duettas if you know any one for them
Hello Bonzo not sure which friend of ours has the ref 10 as I would like to hear it with a sold state amp. I'm running scintillas at the moment and loving them, could do with selling my duettas if you know any one for them
Hi took bozo's advice and bought a Reference 40 it's just amazing I guess it just sounds real with so much control in the base and that mid range just awesome. Thanks for the advice it will be a while before this amp is swapped.
Steve Williams Site Founder | Site Owner | Administrator | Ron Resnick Site Co-Owner | Administrator | Julian (The Fixer) Website Build | Marketing Managersing |