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New purchase BAT VK-60...new buzz

Greetings all,

I just purchased a previously owner BAT VK-60 and am in love already. However, I do have a serious buzz/humm coming from the amp and through the speakers...mainly the midrange. I changed out power cord to a Harmonic Tech and went from a power conditioner into the wall outlet. Less buzz, but still present. I am running high end cables to a single-ended Adcom preamp and my speakers are Genesis.

Thanks for the input.

RichCohan
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a hiss is likely tube noise. different tubes will effect that. some better some worse. some great sounding tubes will have some hiss. part of owning a great tube amp. I had a vk60, now have a vk75se. I have this buzz as well. must be some sort of group loop. do a search on ground loops and go through that process.

Can you hear the buzz more than 1-2 feet away from the speakers? That's about all I can hear...
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