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Help Need tone ctrl on a reference integrated

I may be asking the impossible - Does anyone have a recomendation on how to get tone control for my speakers while using an Albarry PP-1 Reference integrated? It doesn't have main-ins or pre-ins. I live in a condo and, for my next door neighbor's sake, I must turn the bass down @ night. Can I buy an external crossover and bi-pass the internal in my thiel CS 2's? This Albarry sounds soooo cool that I hate to sell it...I need to control bass though and i've already spent a fortune adding drywall to my walls to deaden the transfer between units. I've also bought 2 other good integrateds since buying this Albarry and I hate them all! any pointers would be appreciated greatly
mattcecil

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rgcards
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I think you can run tone controls through you tape montior. The lin level outs are hooked to an externa tone control which is then hooked into you tape in. I think musical fidelity has X series extenal tone controls. An equalizer coul be hooked up the same way. Then you can turn the tone controls on and off by flipping the tape monitor switch
rgcards
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Matcecil,
No you don't have to reroute your sources. I took yhe liberty of looking at the pictur you have posted, just leave tour source dial to whatever you want and turn the source, tape dial to tape. This takes what ever source is on the source dial , routes it through th tape outputs and then out to the speakers. It s for taping LP's or cd s. The switch lets you compare what is being put on tape with your source. However you don't have a tape deck, you can put any thing that can take inputs and gives outputs into there and do the same thing. There some cheap equalizers on this site. I doubt they will be as transpaerent a the x tone but they are cheap. Equalizers usually have their owm tape monitor if you run a tapedeck. Some old integrateds use to bypass the preamp altogether with the tapeouts (ie direct from source) so you could even hook upa whole other integrated to power ascond set of speakers. I doubt that there are many of those that are stilli n circulation.
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