ARC VM 220 WITH VANDERSTEEN WOOD QUATRO

How many hours are on your output tubes????

Thanks, to all I personal dont think i'm pushing it that hard before sound changes. Right about half way, What would be the next step, I want mono's, but not for sure if tubes can handle it when turned up, Is there a good SS amp that has the warmth of tubes. Before i bought the Vandy's i listen to them at Audio Connection, thats what sold me on them, But they were powered by a nice set of Quicksilver v4, the only reason i switched to ARC is i thought the added power would help, and everybody i talked too loved the sound of ARC with Vandy's. I have about 150 hours on the tubes. I heard the Ref's 210 were very close in sound quality, and the Ref's 250 are out of my price range right now. Any suggestion would be great thanks

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A few key points of set up will be the solution.
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John

Where do you have the gain set on the LS25, low, med or high? The Ref 210's are going to have about the same power output as the VM 220s. Though the Ref amps have a little different type of sound. KT120 tubes will up the power a little bit. But I am not sure power is the problem. It would not hurt to play with the setup a bit. Also I have never been a big fan of Kimber with Audio Research gear.

Hello the gain is normaly set MED unitl i turn it up then i switch it to LOW, Have KK on the Biwire speaker cables and Alpha Core Goertz silver on Interconnects. I have also tried Synergistic and Cardas which i did not like at all.