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So a few nights ago the Carver preamp started acting up. Looks like I still have a cold solder joint somewhere that's messing with the left channel.
So I take it down, put up the AV-1 as it can be split between pre and power amps.
"gaaaah"... sounds like music out of a 20 dollar radio.
Take that down, and put up my Onkyo preamp. This is the one that I had put the LM4562 "super op amp" in that sounded sooooo good when I heard it last.
I wanted to puke.. baaah.. Deader than trying to get "funny" with my wife after she's been with my kid all day long..
So finally, even though it was buried under 7 decks, I pull out the trusty Yamaha C-60.
Ahhh.. not AS good as the CT-6, but "passable".
I swear... sometimes I hate equipment of a higher "ratchet" than what I used to have back as a teenager. Back then I had a Sansui A-1200 integrated amp pushing about 125 into two Technics SB-L95's. Yup, those fiberboard, mass-market things.. (but they did have the big 15 woofers, so that "did me fine" back then).
When I started back on the road to good "sound" about 3 years ago, I think the 2nd piece of gear I bought was the same exact Sansui A-1200. Before I got it, my first amp was the Nak AV-1.
I couldn't listen to the Sansui...
And I had a pair of Infinity SM-122's.. went all the way down to NC on a roadtrip for 'em too.
The Polk SDA's I got a few months later silenced them in a week.
Arrgh... so NO, I don't want to listen to anything better... I'm tired of going back to gear I thought was golden and puking...
(hah, and I am made of wood and my nose is growing too...
)
Thought I'd share... gotta fix the Carver, but I'll wait til the weekend. In the meantime, receivers and preamps for sale, cheep cheep!
(hah)
So I take it down, put up the AV-1 as it can be split between pre and power amps.
"gaaaah"... sounds like music out of a 20 dollar radio.
Take that down, and put up my Onkyo preamp. This is the one that I had put the LM4562 "super op amp" in that sounded sooooo good when I heard it last.
I wanted to puke.. baaah.. Deader than trying to get "funny" with my wife after she's been with my kid all day long..

So finally, even though it was buried under 7 decks, I pull out the trusty Yamaha C-60.
Ahhh.. not AS good as the CT-6, but "passable".
I swear... sometimes I hate equipment of a higher "ratchet" than what I used to have back as a teenager. Back then I had a Sansui A-1200 integrated amp pushing about 125 into two Technics SB-L95's. Yup, those fiberboard, mass-market things.. (but they did have the big 15 woofers, so that "did me fine" back then).
When I started back on the road to good "sound" about 3 years ago, I think the 2nd piece of gear I bought was the same exact Sansui A-1200. Before I got it, my first amp was the Nak AV-1.
I couldn't listen to the Sansui...

And I had a pair of Infinity SM-122's.. went all the way down to NC on a roadtrip for 'em too.
The Polk SDA's I got a few months later silenced them in a week.
Arrgh... so NO, I don't want to listen to anything better... I'm tired of going back to gear I thought was golden and puking...

(hah, and I am made of wood and my nose is growing too...

Thought I'd share... gotta fix the Carver, but I'll wait til the weekend. In the meantime, receivers and preamps for sale, cheep cheep!
