Just picked up Krell 350 MCX amplifiers, Using tube preamp is Against its Basic design But krell includes Coupling caps just in case you have a tube preamp
The red circles are the two coupling film capacitors, next to them are the jumpers (green circles). Removing the black plastic jumpers will activate the coupling caps.
@invalid It’s a good precaution as the coupling caps on tube preamps DO go bad and leak. If the amp is otherwise DC coupled, even a few volts of leak (say 10v leak on a 400V preamp ) could be catastrophic.
This is the first time I heard of restrictions using a SS amp with a tube preamp, is this specific to Krell?
Designer's decision! He didn't want the leaky coupling caps in a tube preamp (some vintage/boutique PIO caps tend to leak) damaging downstream components.
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