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Re: sorry, I will go elsewhere with my stupid questions

What I meant, was to just relax a little, and remove yourself from the problem momentarily. You are making the problem more complicated, than it is in reality. Normally, you should not have to do anything to change the gain of the system. My associate, Carl Thomsen, the T in CTC, uses an HCA-2200 modified by me, with the CTC preamp that I also use with a modified HCA-3500. Neither one of us has any noise or gain problem, so it is difficult to pin down what your problem is. Are you using really efficient loudspeakers, like over 100dB/W ? This could make a difference. We use speakers in the low 90's.
Did you accidentally change the gain of the power amp to a much higher value? You should try to check this with an ac meter and a test tone. Do you have any test equipment? Much of what is confusing is not because anything serious is wrong, but that we don't know the state of the equipment under test. This leads to a lot of idle speculation and hand-wringing. It is best to look at each piece of equipment, one at a time. Good luck, and keep us informed.


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