Preamp Deal of the Century

Mhu - i'm really glad you like the cabernet so much. i would just leave it on and playing at low levels so you can rack up the burn-in time quickly. i got about 4500 hours on my cabernet and it sings like you wouldn't believe.

everyone - i am tweaking the system a bit. wrapping up a home audition of a dac. when i put my EVS dac back in the system i decided to place some EVS step attentuators on the outputs. don't know about others but my system is high-gain and i could never get the supratek volume above 30%. so i attentuated the source signal to the point that i could use most of the volume on the supratek. it just allows me to hear more of the cabernet in the system and less of the dac's outputs. boy is it ever smokin good now. this calls for some espolon anejo and an ashton vsg.

also noticed now that i can turn up the volume on the supratek that i can hear rfi from the supratek remote bleeding through the system. of course this only happens when i'm actually using the remote. so it isn't a cause for alarm just curiosity.

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Jazzdude,
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Glad your Cabernet is doing so well for you. Thanks for sharing about using the step EVS attenuators on the outputs.....very intersting.
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Thanks,
Rgds,
Larry
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if you ask for it mick can also put a step attentuator on the inputs of the supratek to attentuate the incoming source signal. i have one on mine but never used it because i thought it was a gain attentuator.

Hello,
My remote control isn't working. Mick says the volume pot needs to be centered. Can someone go into details as to how I would do this? I've opened up the preamp but having no luck centering the volume pot. Thanks.

Hello guys,whenever i touch the volume knob on my Chard i get a hum,if im touching something metal on my system it goes away,just started doing it today!any thoughts,i recently had to center the volume knob im wondering if something came loose inside,also seems more microphonic than usual,i will email Mick,just thought id ask here first