Anthem STR or BHK (PS Audio) preamp?? Thoughts

@mofojo  I just normally listen without it for a couple of reasons..

1. Room isn't treated well enough to get the maximum out of ARC yet.

2. Swapping speakers so often, I want to hear them "organically".  

3. It bothers me that ARC is doing a whole other analog to digital conversion on my signal, therefore I have to either be ok with that, or not use an external dac.

1. Room isn't treated well enough to get the maximum out of ARC yet.

Isn't the fact that the room is not well treated a greater reason to use ARC? 

 @golfmd2 not really.  ARC cannot fix a bad room..  It CAN help but it's assistance is limited if you feed it junk to begin with.  It helps a bad room but won't FIX a bad room.

Of course it won't FIX a bad room but it will do wonders for bass reproduction, the toughest part of any room to optimize.  ARC is there to help with rooms that cannot be optimized due to space, wives, etc.  It's not a "cherry on top" tweak.  If the room is sonically optimized then the need for room correction diminishes.