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In Reply to: RE: loudness on C-22 posted by Michael Samra on July 01, 2009 at 14:42:09
I should mention that the second C-22 I'm now using did do some strange things and it drove me nuts for a while because the sonics were from staggering fantastic to out of alignment AM radio with a 3" speaker. I never knew what to expect when I turned the system on so I finally bit the bullet and went through it reflowing solder on every connection and cleaning tube pins and sockets. I flooded the heck out of all the pots and switches with alcohol, contact cleaner then De-Oxit and worked them 20-30 times during each flooding. Whatever it was it's been OK for months now. But now and then I work all the controls and switches several times and it may be mind over matter but it seems to sound better after that. LOL Who knows.
All six 12AX7's in it were NOS Telefunken smooth plates that are now about 8 years old. I found that older EI 12AX7's I have that are branded RCA sound very nice in it too. Our pal Jim says they were made on the old Tele machinery so they are like Tele's.
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