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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
jabbles180 OP
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Thanks for all the help guys. I have a feeling my speaker system is my low point right now.

My system is set up like this:

My RP project.rpm5.1 goes into the upgraded campridge 640p with the upgraded sound chips and this goes into a yamaha ysp-1.

I did this as that is what i had around for a sound system in the front room where the vinyl is listened to the most.(plus allowing for the other inputs)

If im getting my information right the sound board on the ysp-1 is becoming my amp nullifying an added tube amp.

So, in order to marry this cambridge 640p and a tube amp i am guessing i have to dedicate a new speaker system to allow the pre amp and amp to get the sound im wanting wantingspecifically for the record player.

The warmth of the tube would be killed by the sound processor of the ysp-1, is this the correct thinking? Or, is my chain of equipment incorrect?
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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
4,255 posts
 
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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