LoFi

@stereo5 

I’m trying to find the problem.
The best guess is that I have a tube that went bad in my preamp.

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I had my Odyssey Tempest preamp serviced recently. In preparation, i picked up an interim, APT Holman Pre.

To my chagrin the vintage Holman bested the OT ... not by a little

Why not pick up a temp unit?  

My record collection, my pride and joy, was wiped out in a flood in 1985.  By coincidence the flood occurred the night my triplets were born, August 6; also the anniversary of the Hiroshima bomb, so a portentous day.  I couldn’t afford to buy a CD player and LPs were disappearing from shops.  Even after I scraped enough loose change to buy a CDP the CDs were expensive.  The result was that in those pre streaming days most of my music came from my Pioneer collage dorm entry level AVR tuner.

  I am supposed to end this post by saying it’s the best audio that I ever had, that all the fancy gear I’ve since bought has never equaled the joy of that source through my Advent 3 speakers.  Sorry, no effing way.  Once I was able to start buying better stuff there has been no turning back.  Wanting to go back would be like a castaway on a desert island who having been rescued after years insists on ditching fine dining options for a meal of coconuts and raw jelly fish

@mahler123

Your lucky your not distracted or seduced by the sheer physical sound of your system.

Try working in a vacant unheated building with water dripping everywhere from the failed roof and I can assure you that a bluetooth tailgate speaker sounds pretty great :)