So, my regular pre-amp is sick... - ghost of olddude55 - Amp/Preamp Asylum

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So, my regular pre-amp is sick...

ghost of olddude55

It's a Hafler DH-101, recapped by me last February. Worked great until about a month ago, some issues with the left channel not related to the crappy push-putton switches.
But that's another story. I've got the back-up preamp in the system right now. It's a Kenwood C-1, also recapped by me but more like a decade ago.
Anywhoo, unlike the Hafler, it doesn't have be turned on to work. I have a headphone amp connect to one of the tape outs and the turntable playing through an external phono stage via the tuner input.
The Kenny is off. The power button is in the off position, no LED, etc.
But I'm still getting a signal to the headphone amp.
This is pretty cool, IMO. I've probably run a half-dozen preamps through my system over the last 15 years and none of them just passed the signal through without being powered up.

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Edits: 01/01/21

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Topic - So, my regular pre-amp is sick... - ghost of olddude55 15:18:57 01/01/21 (12)

RE: So, my regular pre-amp is sick... - Mike B. 14:56:47 01/03/21 (1)

It's a pretty simple device... - ghost of olddude55 04:05:18 01/04/21 (0)

Ghost, Did you resolder all the solder joints? - Cougar 09:08:19 01/02/21 (5)

When you resolder, do you just melt what's there, or do you add - alaskahiatt 11:01:33 01/02/21 (3)

Thanks to you both. nt - alaskahiatt 23:34:46 01/02/21 (0)

I remove the old solder and use a little flux to make sure... - Cougar 12:49:09 01/02/21 (0)

Don't know about Cougar, but I just do a reflow. - ghost of olddude55 11:27:07 01/02/21 (0)

Left channel isn't dead but it's coughing up blood. - ghost of olddude55 09:45:17 01/02/21 (0)

Welcome to analog... - Rod M 19:53:13 01/01/21 (0)

RE: So, my regular pre-amp is sick... - JURB 18:08:30 01/01/21 (2)

No headphone jack on the C-1. - ghost of olddude55 04:15:16 01/02/21 (1)

RE: No headphone jack on the C-1. - SgreenP@MSN.com 13:16:25 01/02/21 (0)

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