The C-1 is a wonderful speaker, ruthlessly revealing of anything in the food chain, exposing the weakest link.
While the ARC is a fine sounding amp and in moderate size room will be more than adequate, to really make the C-1's sing you will need 250 watts or more per ch.
While I have heard suggestions that ss amps work best on this speaker because of the low sensitivity, a big tube amp lifts them to a special plateau.