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hair brained idea and a hello

I was wondering if anybody had any info for some hair brained idea i have.

Right now i have a project rpm 5.1 with the stamdard pearl needle, rollunning into an upgraded interal cambridge 640 with upgreated sound chips and high quality ports.

Now i cant evenenjoy rather bright sounding vinyl sound.

I was wondering if anyone has "daisy chained" for the lack of a better term a tube preamp and a solid state amp such as the cambridge.

I am interested in what kind of change i would get at all trying to daisy chain these amps or if somebody with more knowledge or experience then i, as im a mid 20 year old just getting into this whole audiophile side of enjoying vinyl.

-any reading, knowledge, anything would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Jabbles180 (adam)
jabbles180
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swampwalker
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The Yamaha sound bar is a designed to substitute for multiple speakers to create a pseudo-surround set-up. It is not designed to optimize sound quality for 2 channel listening. You will almost certainly need different speakers and I would expect you would hear a substantial improvement in sound just w new speakers, using the amp in the Cambridge.
acman3
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Jabbles180, The Yamaha sound bar is not going to give good sound, and needs to be replaced at some point. It is probably the reason your vinyl is bright.

You can do as you plan or save money for a integrated amp/receiver or preamp/amp and speakers. See if you can defeat the DSP.

If you have a budget, others can help you better with suggestions.

There are many directions to go from where you are now. Bandaids will seem like the way to go( ie. tube preamp) ,but you will be better off putting a nice low cost system together.
acman3
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Swampwalker, I think the 640p is a phono amp.

I do wonder if the Yamaha internal amp can be used for external speakers.
jabbles180 OP
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@aceman: that's my dilemma.i think it might be time to either scrap the ysp-1 for the records. Or start piecing a completely new system. As i see no audio outs on the ysp-1 and pulling audio from my pioneer receivers audio out into the ysp-1 is creating sound lag i can seem to fix.

And yes the cambridge 640p is a solid state phono pre amp
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swampwalker
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If you are going from a phono stage directly into the YSP-1, you are relying on it to act as a line stage, amp & speaker. I'm thinking you are not going to get anything approaching what your TT can provide. I'd consider phono-pre to new integrated amp line level input to new speaker as the way to go. Give us a budget and maybe we can make recommendations.
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