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Tube preamp noise question
Just visited Andy's website so I was misinformed about him closing up shop. Thanks for the tip. 
Tube preamp noise question
I thought Andy had closed up shop? 
Tube preamp noise question
As promised, I have an update to the original post. The problem was in the 6SN7 tubes. Thanks to McFarland who graciously supplied me with some spares that he had on hand, I replaced the stock tubes and voila, no more of the noise that was present... 
Tube preamp noise question
Thanks everyone for the responses. It sounds like the consensus is that it is tube related. I'll report back with my results. 
Tube lingo question
Jeffrey,My pinkie must have slipped, thus inserting the hyfen inappropriately. Notice that I correctly spelled preamp in the original post. Thank you for the valuable inphormation, though. By the way, it appears you have way too much time on your ... 
Tube lingo question
Thanks for the explaination. If you have a highly microphonic pre-amp, will that have a negative impact when playing music or is it just a phenomenon that is notice when tapping the tube when not playing music? 
Buying HiFi at credit, anyone?
Beheme,Back in the late 80's, when I was in grad school, I bought a surround sound pre-amp, Carver silver nine mono amps and a CD player on credit, because I had no real income other than student loans. The interest compounded over the several yea... 
How far would you drive to audition a component?
tom,Sorry to be so late in response. I haven't checked this thread in a long while.I live in northern Mississippi. I grew up in SW Missouri. 
How far would you drive to audition a component?
Audiotomb,A little off topic but the Tallamena Parkway is worth that trip on its own. I've ridden my motorcycle and driven it in my sports car on several occasions. It's kind of like a 30mi piece of the Blue Ridge Parkway on the edge of Arkansas a... 
Audio Horizons TP 2.0 Preamplifier
Bill,So you say there is a remote for $300 then? It is not on mentioned in their pricelist or on their website. I've emailed Victor but haven't heard back from him. I guess I'll try again, or just, gasp, call them. By fully loaded you have the 2.0... 
Tube pre-amps $3500 under to add "warmth"
Mrtennis,What preamps did you hear at CES? 
Audio Horizons TP 2.0 Preamplifier
Any truth to remote rumor? Somewhere I read that a remote control is now available but I don't see it on the website. Is it true Victor? 
Esoteric X-01 D2
OK so what's your question? 
Tube pre-amps $3500 under to add "warmth"
Mitch,Thanks for the tip on output impedence. My amps SS amp has an input impedence of 100k so need to keep it at 10k output impedence for the preamp then. 
Tube pre-amps $3500 under to add "warmth"
Thanks for the suggestions guys. I'm not looking for a used unit really, so am going to stick with factory fresh this time. I've narrowed it down to the Audio Horizons, Dodd and Supratek Sauvignon. The Dodd is so new there doesn't seem to be anyon...