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In Reply to: RE: Am I being to picky of just in need of a new toy? posted by airtime on June 29, 2015 at 07:12:02
Pad the output of your tuner. A pair of -12dB attenuators at the input of the passive control plugged between the tuner's interconnects and its input on the passive control ought to do the trick.
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I'm using a home made IR volume control attenuator between the tuner/streamer and the preamp.
I use a 10k metal film 1/4 resistor in line. A Bent audio 49k volume pot on an IR board as the variable shunt to ground. It is now a volume remote so I can sit on my fat rump and control the volume from my Lazy-Boy.
I use this for my vintage Sherwood stereo and Conrad Johnson. Works quite well most of the time. Except when stations broadcast LOUDLY!
yeah, well, every engineer has to deal with this when the marketing department says, 'we need a remote'. when your marketing department, i.e., your 'I can have it all at a lower price' mentality, decides it doesn't need remote, then you can either pay to have it done right, or leave it alone.
It sounds like the remote is somehow overriding the circuitry of the preamp......strange. Why should it depend on what the radio station is doing? That is after all decoded by the tuner, not the amplifier!
I can't understand why this shouldn't happen when you switch between sources on the preamp.
Is there really a difference in gain between radio stations?
In digital audio there is software to compensate for gain differences, that's probably what you are running into.
Also, tube preamps tend to massively increase gain. Your C-J is massively ramping up the voltage, unnecessarily really since modern sources already have plenty of voltage gain.
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