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Low level buzzing coming from tweeters.
@ncarv  Short the inputs to the amps- if not shorted and no input, a buzz might be normal.  
Balance adjustment?
At the same time, the bottom end dropped out a little. That's curious.Check the phase- invert the phase on one channel only (reverse the speaker connections on one speaker only) and see what happens.If the bass gets better, you may also notice the... 
Rectifier Hum
Can you be sure this just started happening or you just noticed it? 
Cell Phones & Tube Amps
We run cell phones into tube amps all the time with no worries. But it does sound like there is a problem here. Its not a tube thing so much as a 'this specific amp' thing. 
Power Cords Snake Oil ??
Nobody has considers what is behind AC wall receptacle and what kind of power is coming to that receptacle through the wires. Even if you pull completely new 20A line from breaker box to your HiFi (which is probably most efficient thing you ca... 
Swapping Wilson Watt Puppy 6’s for open baffle Pure Audio Project Trio15 Voxative's
With an open baffle, you want the room behind the speaker to do something. The reflections, if the speaker is properly set up in the room, are used by the ear to discern the source of the sounds it hears; IOW improves imaging and soundstage.  
Rectifier Hum
^^ I'm doubting the filter cap failure theory, but you might be on to something; on reading the specs on the 274b one of the claims is lower hum, provided the power supply is built in a certain way, which is to say a fairly low filter cap value fo... 
ATMA SPHERE SCHEMATIC for a UV-1 M/M.......
FWIW, yesterday I discovered that my employee that builds the UV-1s had taken interior photos of the early handwired units on his phone. The photos were clear enough to suss out the layout, so I sent one to Will. 
Joule Electra question
If the tape output works, it is quite possible that the line stage isn't simply because of a bad tube. Give Rich as call as previously suggested (Rich is a great guy), (315) 622-4137; he may be able to advise you on that. 
ATMA SPHERE SCHEMATIC for a UV-1 M/M.......
autospec can you elaborate on what required fixing on your MP-1 that cost 2k? I'm in the market for a used MP-1 and would like to know what might go wrong.Will found what was apparently the 3rd MP-1 ever built in a shop near his house. It neede... 
ATMA SPHERE SCHEMATIC for a UV-1 M/M.......
Will, I was very clear about this on the phone. Who are the 'others' that 'don't see it that way'?It seemed quite clear on the phone that you were interested in doing this yourself, and you've made it clear to me in past phone calls that you have ... 
Amplification for Wilson Audio Sasha on the cheap
Again, despite the low impedance at 80Hz or so, the speaker is easy to drive. We got walloping bass using our MA-1 amplifier which is an OTL, which are not known for driving low impedance loads. So if you have 100 watts of good quality, tube or so... 
ATMA SPHERE SCHEMATIC for a UV-1 M/M.......
We have schematics for the M-50 and MP-1, Will. You asked for a schematic, not internal layouts. We don't have a schematic that is all that neat as I mentioned before. But apparently even if I had provided it, that would not have solved the proble... 
Swapping Wilson Watt Puppy 6’s for open baffle Pure Audio Project Trio15 Voxative's
Having heard the PAPs, I can't say that they have any lack of punch! That seems to have a lot more to do with the amps driving them.  
ATMA SPHERE SCHEMATIC for a UV-1 M/M.......
We simply don’t have schematics that look at that good for public consumption.As some of you may know, the UV-1 is based on the mods/updates we would do to a Dynaco PAS-3.So the phono stage is very similar to that of the PAS-3. The differences are...