HI everibody, I'm Teo and I am new at this forum. I just had occasion to test and taste :-) both ARC pre ( I mean ls27 vs ref6).
I was looking to find a Pre to upgrade my set up.
In Milan, close were I live, There were in a music shop both equipment used on sale (but few hours operating ,valve counter says around 2000h) .
Dealer allow me to brought with me my set up, in order to add PRE and test before decide wich to buy.
My set up were composed by:
Hearbeth shl5+ 40th anniversary
PRE Cairn nanda (dual mono fully balanced)
FINAL pair of 2 mono Cairn k1 A class 50W
then we ran, in order :
1- my set up as it is .
2- my set up (but not my PRE) inserting LS27
3-my set up (but not my PRE) inserting ref6
4-my set up (but not my PRE) inserting LS27 again
was hard but in the end ls27 results more enjoiable and emotional respect ref6 ...YES I know..strange to say... but that was.
in the end , listening to our ears ... ref6 doesn't worth the money ( double respect ls27)
may be could be that I had to upgrade also Final stage (but this means to spend around 10k€ again ) in order to hear /feel differently and chose ref6.
we spend around 4 hours in test and listening the same differents music /tracks with all the set up configuration listed before... in order to arrive a conclusions....
...hoping it will be usefull
ciao MAt