Re: Tempest II problems

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In Reply to: Tempest II problems posted by Audiopath49 on December 2, 2006 at 21:20:31:

If I'm up to speed on your situation, you are using a passive preamp to drive the amp section of an integrated amp. In doing so, you are not getting any gain out of the passive and the amp section of the integrated is having to be driven by the source component through whatever length of resistive interconnects you are using and resulting in an impedence mismatch between the components.
Given the situation, you could either try Rogue's suggestion or try different interconnects that are shorter and less resistive...or both.
Preamp tubes are critical to the sound and I suspect you will notice a difference in sound (maybe better, maybe worse) but I would opt for NOS tubes over any Chinese tube every time.

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