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| Hiss from speakers that increases as loudness control is decreased While it is being serviced, have them thoroughly clean those old rca jacks: Those old McIntosh jacks are close together, hard to clean, and not gold plated, subject to corrosion. My vintage McIntosh Preamp mx110z (from the 1960’s). I was in a hurr... | |
| Ground wire Remember, only one source is used at a time, I leave other source devices off, then a gazillion wires can go to 1 ground point.I have had to extend ground wire of din cable to reach ground screw at far end of the preamp.I have 3 tonearm ground wir... | |
| AV Receiver Upgraded Looks to be an awesome unit, highly respected sound quality, the cons were only about it's complexity, which I have to assume you have mastered.I would only think about the speakers, fully satisfied? or some improvement possible?After 13 years, I ... | |
| Better Integrated Amp? IF you can find Speakers, local pick up, and can listen at seller’s, and get right to return, you will know condition, sound quality, and option of easy return without packaging/shipping. | |
| Better Integrated Amp? At that budget, I am going to suggest Vintage Receiver with Vintage Speakers (or used newer speakers) to start, and upgrade in the future.Vintage Receiver will give you several inputs, volume and balance, and MM phono built in. I also suggest gett... | |
| Better Integrated Amp? Only 30 wpc, buy speakers later? HmmmmmThat presumes you eventually buy efficient speakers, I would want more like 92 db/1w/1m. Often more efficient speakers are large, and big cabinets get expensive, as well as hard to fit.I think it is best to c... | |
| Cayin iDAC-1 Remote Control did you talk to Steve at VAS?https://vasnyinc.com/ | |
| Tube life many power tubes last 10,000 hoursabout el84'shttps://toptubeamplifier.com/how-long-do-el84-tubes-last/7 minute video from psaudio about tube lifehttps://www.psaudio.com/askpaul/how-long-do-tubes-last/ | |
| Low output MC for For Rega RP6 btw, what phono stage are you using now? | |
| Low output MC for For Rega RP6 what model SUT? It's specs? MC cartridges have two critical specs: signal strength; and coil impedance.We need to know about your SUT to ascertain what cartridge signal strength and what cartridge coil impedance it is good for.Some SUT's are ad... | |
| Speaker recommendation $1000 or less you've had in your home bobspets1the TT with 3 arms I wrote you about can be seen in last photo of this listing on eBayhttps://www.ebay.com/itm/133612076659 | |
| Integrated Amp Question for a Newbie to the Forum Most integrated amps do not have phono preamps.You are lucky, your Jolida has both low outputs, and high outputs.The high output is internally boosted up to line level, thus you can go into any line level input of the integrated amp, aux, tape, cd... | |
| Speaker recommendation $1000 or less you've had in your home Are you considering used?I owned a pair of JSE Infinite Slopes (two unique patents). Used them for years, they were terrific, my son has them now. I had Model 2, my friend had smaller, shorter version, also sounded terrific.some used ones for sale... | |
| Integrated Amp Question for a Newbie to the Forum Nice system.Am I correct that you will skip a preamp: jolida and everything else direct to new integrated?count your needed inputs: some offer preamp direct as one of their inputs. That skips the integrated’s volume, so you may not be able to use ... | |
| Integrated Amp Question for a Newbie to the Forum what are you doing with that mx110?busted?I love mine, wouldn't mind having some spare parts.you could pm me.thanks, Elliott |