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Fear of volume control

An audiophile friend of mine came over for a listening session yesterday and my set sounded better than I ever heard it. It turns out that I raised the volume control higher than normal, I guess to impress him.
Normally I place it around 12 to 1 o’clock. Yesterday I put it at between 2 and 3 o’clock.
Wow! What a difference. the room shook with the orchestra and organ at full tilt.
I was previously hesitant to push the volume much past 12 o’clock for fear of distorting the sound. There was no distortion whatsoever, just clean, beautiful, powerful sound.

Lesson learned!
rvpiano

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invalid
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find with very quiet preamps the sound is good at low levels too. That is you can hear everything

I agree with you on this, I used to have to listen loud until I got a really good preamp.
invalid
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invalid what preamp do you have?


I have a space tech labs tube preamp. 
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