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Replace volume pot

Hello,
My preamp has a Noble volume pot at 100K ohms.
I like the sound of the preamp in my system so I prefer to keep it. However, I'm having to run the preamp with volume control at almost max rotation to produce a moderate sound level. Also, I like my Monarchy amps and do not want to change these. A friend tracked down a Noble pot (same physical dimensions and pin configuration)at 50K ohms.
I'm hoping to replace the pot and not alter the sound characteristic/performance of the preamp.
Any concerns with performing this swap?
pdspecl

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pdspecl OP
254 posts
 
Problem is not the volume pot or mismatch from preamp to amp.
I disconnected the XLR cables and connected RCA cables to the the Monarchy amps. My gain has increased dramatically. No more issue. Very interesting that the different cablee configuration runs very different levels on the same amp.
pdspecl OP
254 posts
 
The preamp is single end only. So the cables I had were single ended for preamp side and XLR in the other end.
Went back to using a cable that single ended on both ends. Issue resolved. My guess is that if the preamp had XLR outputs and I went XLR to XLR this issue would not occur.
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