McIntosh C33 image question


Hello A-goners,

I had a chance to audition a McIntosh C33 preamp in my system recently. Most vocalist appeared to be three feet left of center as compared to my CJ PV-5 preamp. Anyone know why this may happen? Phasing issue or some other adjustment?

System: Thiel 3.6, Classe Model 10

BTW, I loved everything else about the C33. Great tonality and detail!

Thanks
skateman

Showing 1 response by newbee

Weak tubes on the right side of the pre-amp. Try sitching those tubes with tubes on the left side and see if anything happens, or if you've got'em, plug in some spares on the right side and see if anything changes.

If you haven't changed your set up at all since you put in the new pre-amp it shouldn't be much different. Try some other recordings and try a mono source like you can get from a tuner (normally there is a mono switch) or a test/set set up recording.