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help...muddy sound from 834p

sonic frontiers line 1
sonic frontiers power 1
shure vmr15
infinity overture 3

I have motif mp-11 pre that sounds great...but wanted to try tube phono pre....and no good....noisy and muddy in my system...no treble or range...any suggestions?
skeyebox
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audioman4
174 posts
 
Are your tubes in the Phono Pre good?? That sounds like a bad tube somewhere... or check the polarity of the power cord if it is hard wired and 2 prong as with most phono stages...
Just a thought...
Best of luck,
Joe
Custom Audio LLC
hee
22 posts
 
Are you using the original EAR tubes? They sound like what you'd described. And a used Kimber PK14 will help.
lafish
151 posts
 
muddy may reflect the following problems:

1) too much tubes
2) cable connection
3) speaker efficiency

Suggest you to check the above first.
skeyebox OP
27 posts
 
thanks for the suggestions. Any way to check for bad tubes other than putting on one of those tube tester machines
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