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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@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
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

@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. 
Adding any other  footers under the existing ARC ones would not be a good idea as the sorbothane in the existing feet will fight the new footer. The one option that would work would be small sub based/platforms under each existing foot. Ron sells a set of these, cost is about $200. I guess you could also try an inverted footer that rises to a point like the Synergistic ones (which I have never liked)

As I said I get it to work with two points of contact on the chassis and one on the undercover (the design of the Marigo mystery feet is such that they end in points which is wher contact is made).

I have also tried bits of material above the footer to bring the chassis and sub cover level but this sounded terrible