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In Reply to: RE: Cables to Add Warmth posted by mike555 on September 15, 2015 at 14:56:10
I hope it's okay to say this in this forum, but my first thought was to try rolling the tubes in the Prima Luna. Could make more of a difference than changing-out wires in different places.Another thought would be to try and isolate the source of the brightness. If you have a different amplifier available, for example, you might try temporarily swapping it for the McIntosh and see what happens.
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Tube Rolling... changing tubes could definitely fix the issue
Thank you for the reply. I have rolled tubes, replacing the 12ax7s in the Primaluna with Genalex Gold Lions, to no avail. I have also tried different amps in the system, including a Primaluna Prologue 5, without much luck. More critically, there is zero brightness issue in this setup when I use it with vinyl (rega exact --> rega P5 ---> graham slee phono stage). On this basis, I do not think the amp or the preamp is the issue.
I received a generous offer from a fellow in Cleveland to lend me some cables to try out, if I was local to Cleveland (which I am not). If anyone local to Philly (where I am located) could duplicate the offer, I would be willing to give an appropriate deposit or whatever to secure the cable loan.
whoops, just read this post...
Curious, because the Marantz disc players are not known to be bright. I've had three of them, myself.
Do you have the brightness with other high level sources, perhaps the audio from your television pumped though the system?
True. I have a Marantz DV6600 universal player, a bright is not a word I would use to describe it. However, it really is an entry level machine so my experience my not apply.
Dave
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