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ARC Ref 6 plexiglass cover

My brand new ARC Ref 6 black was delivered yesterday 6-15-18 from ARC and to my big surprise was the twice as thick plexiglass cover that came with it. I had bought a used Ref 6 silver,natural finish that i had problems with it from the shipment (came damaged ) any way the year that the used one was built was 2016 and had the twice as thin plexiglass cover which seemed to melt on top of the power supply tube. It looks like ARC corrected this problem and now uses the twice as thick plexiglass cover , i can not see this cover melting and causing it to bubble on top of the power supply tube. Nice improvement ARC !!!  And i will tell you that right out of the box it sounds AMAZING..
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Yep, the series H are $2k a set, but the upgrades are audible

the key issue with alternative footers on ARC preamps is clearance under the amp. There isn’t much room between the front of the amp and the raised under cover so larger footers will not fit. Putting the footers only on the metal under cover sounds terrible.  In the case of the Marigo you need to have it half on the frame and half on the under cover which is not ideal but works
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@folkfreak ..... Putting footers only on the metal under cover...  I thought you had the plexiglass undercover. Dont you have the Ref 40? 
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@folkfreak   I would love to buy the Marigo but i just cant afford them at this time... So i did buy the Vibrapod Cones and Pods for the Ref 6 and for my Rega Isis CDP.. I will see how they work for the time being... I also want to buy the Herbies Big And Tall Tender feet extra firm for my Krell FPB 600 amp when i buy the Herbies tube dampers for my Ref 6
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I misspoke in a prior post. The Ref 40 undercover is always metal and stands proud of the frame, there is no option of a perspex undercover. 

You can can get a lot of the benefit of the Marigo footers by dropping a puck of his material under your existing footers and the cost is a couple of hundred. You can reach Ron at marigoaudio@frontier.com

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@folkfreak ......... Can you put the footers under the ARC feet? Since there is not enough room between the plexiglass and chassis ? And since the chassis is raised more than the undercover , and then there is the plexiglass bottom cover. Wow i just looked and there really aint no room at all for footers. 
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