Tad 1000's quiet?


Have a TAD 150 sig along side my 1000's and some Mirage speakers (not sure of the model). I can literally turn the pre all the way up running my Basis turntable or iPhone. Am I missing something?
brinmeliss
There are several things you don't mention in your original post. If this a recent occurrence or has this combo always acted this way?

If it just started happening, you need to check for tubes going bad or gain knobs that got bumped or inadvertently adjusted downward.

I read up on the 150 Sig a bit, and the circuit can accommodate various tubes, specifically 12AU7, 12AT7, or 12AX7. These are all in the same family but have different amounts of gain; the 12AU7 has the lowest gain of the three and 12AX7 has the highest.

Is your turntable plugged into the phono inputs? Have you recently changed cartridges to a low output moving coil cartridge? I suppose that might not be the problem since you get the same low-gain problem with your iPhone, but it could be a coincidence. Check where you have the volume set on your iPhone as well as on the monoblocks.
Louder for sure but I can still turn the amp all the way up with iPhone turned all the way up.
Combo has acted like this since I bought them both at the same time. I have a Lyra Clavis dc cart on my Basis Tt with a sound smith ruby retip. As I said it is louder bi passing the 150 but I would still guess turning them all the way would be an impossibility. Do all tube amp owners own a tube tester? I'm guessing it's the only way to know if any are bad? I can list the tube types later this evening if that would help.
He states that it has always been this way and I asked what kind of tubes he has in it because as you said Johnny if HD is using 12au7's that could cause the low gain issue.

Brinmeliss, did you buy these pieces new or used? If you purchased them second hand did you contact the seller and ask if this had been a problem for them?
Bought the 1000s on here and after a lengthy delay seller said he had no issues with amp. Bought the 150 from my uncle in Cali that he used. He did some mods to it. I hate to get him involved because he will want me to send it back so he can tweek it and quite honestly I'm not up for it unless all else fails... Amp have (4)KT 88's..(1) el-34.. (1)WY1...(1)12Ax7 and (1) 6E2 per side