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| Any B&K Ref. 30 Gurus out there? sorry - most obvious question but - Are you sure you have Zone 2 powered on? It's a separate remote iirc . . . | |
| cleaning tube sockets I use deoxit - spray it on an old tube, insert, remove, insert, remove, install new tube, let dry. Play. | |
| seeking Hybrid Integrated Amp recommendations Dtc - I follow you . . . he currently has an Integra HT Receiver, and is not satisfied with the music only (stereo) performance. He ran another thread questioning whether adding 2 outboard amps would improve this. The net of the thread is he would... | |
| seeking Hybrid Integrated Amp recommendations Unity Gain is one way that mfg's implement HT bypass. The point is he wants to be able to use his integrated to drive his front mains when using his HT receiver TV/HT. Otherwise it's used stand alone for music. | |
| Using a receiver as a pre-amp...many questions It's true that ht passthru is a significant advantage. While I wouldn't describe the volume matching as a pain, it's a serious inconvenience, or semi risky. When I used my Musical Fidelity preamp for HT PT, I set the volume knob at 12:00 which is ... | |
| Using a receiver as a pre-amp...many questions Jp . . . Tls has given good advice above. It did not occur to me that the Integra would not output digital sources to the tape outs. I think the direction you're going now can yield very good music results. The only thing I would add is this - Cle... | |
| Using a receiver as a pre-amp...many questions one possibility for your music sources is to use your Integra as a DAC (ie leave them connected to the integra via HDMI), and take an analog connection from a "tape out" (assuming you have one) to the analog input of your integrated. Otherwise get... | |
| Using a receiver as a pre-amp...many questions Jpg1975 - I took another look at your original post, and if you were thinking of buying those red dragon audio m500's - that's $2400 - far more budget than you will need to get a pretty nice 2 channel music rig to run in parallel with you HT rig. ... | |
| Using a receiver as a pre-amp...many questions Jpg1975 - I took another look at your original post, and if you were thinking of buying those red dragon audio m500's - that's $2400 - far more budget than you will need to get a pretty nice 2 channel music rig to run in parallel with you HT rig. ... | |
| Using a receiver as a pre-amp...many questions @Bdgregory do you think a stand alone hometheater pre-amp (for example emotiva umc-200) would be any better with regard to the issue I am experiencing? the short answer is maybe. I've tried multiple HT Receivers, and multiple Stand alone Pre/Pro's... | |
| best tube preamp under a 1000 for B&K 200 sonatas? I could be mistaken, but I seem to remember that the B&K M200's having a fair low input impedance of 22K(?) Ohms. you're very close - the published spec is 24.3 Kohms | |
| Using a receiver as a pre-amp...many questions In order to have the system sound good for anything (movies/tv or music) I feel like I have to turn the receiver up too high (around 68-75 out of 100)...otherwise the sound is flat/boring. Do people agree that this is a problem, or I should just t... | |
| best tube preamp under a 1000 for B&K 200 sonatas? Hello,I see a TAD 150 Signature posted on Agon. I owned one 4 years ago. A very nice sounding tube preamp for its price point. Has no short comings really - just sounds right. Has remote, only uses (2) tubes so tube rolling is not too costly. It h... | |
| Simple Biamp question I vertically biamp using a TAD 150 sig to 2 SS amps. In my case though since I use one of the outputs for HT passthrough (this is how they are wired - one can serve as HT pt via resistive coupling), I use the single output and a Y-adapter at the a... | |
| Tube amp is loud at zero volume it's hard to tell without seeing a schematic . . . but my first suspicion (knowing nothing about your amp)would be that the volume pot is broken. I've had it happen before on a guitar amp - the wiper separates from the shaft and stays wherever it ... |