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Post by firebottle on May 25, 2020 18:02:36 GMT
Doesn't look so good on the missus though.
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Post by macca on May 31, 2020 13:22:43 GMT
Black Tulip Pre-amp is here:  it isn't Jerry's old one, as it turns out. Great looking bit of kit. |
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Post by firebottle on May 31, 2020 13:55:07 GMT
Is it the one I have recapped partially?
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Post by jandl100 on May 31, 2020 14:04:43 GMT
Yeah, different model to mine. Looks like the same model Jules had, he sold it a while back not sure to who.
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Post by macca on May 31, 2020 15:16:28 GMT
Is it the one I have recapped partially? Yes it is. Bought it off of Ian. Bit of a cock-up on the AV front. What I assumed were analogue outputs on the back of the TV don't appear to be. RCA sockets yes but there doesn't appear to be any option to output through them. Resorted to RTFM but that's absolutely no help. remember when manuals had a picture of the unit with all the inputs and outputs labelled as to what they did? Not this one. 5 pages of idiotic safety crap (don't immerse the tv in a swimming pool, that sort of thing) and 2 pages about a 'magic remote' whatever the F#ck that is. There's an option to output to headphones which must be an analogue output but nowhere does it tell you what to connect the headphones to. So looks like I can't make this work unless I buy a separate DAC. Bollocks. |
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Post by antonio on May 31, 2020 15:33:28 GMT
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Post by macca on May 31, 2020 15:39:17 GMT
I've got some of them but no good. No 3.5mm jack output. The headphone output is something weird. I will have to get a cheap DAC, and then find somewhere to plug it in. I already have 3 six way distribution blocks daisy-chained and all sockets are in use. I was using the digital output previously with the XTZ amp as that has internal DAC but I wasn't happy with the sound quality. The gain isn't right. That's why I wanted to go analogue. |
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Post by firebottle on May 31, 2020 15:47:27 GMT
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Post by macca on May 31, 2020 15:57:12 GMT
Ordered one, thanks Alan. Doesn't arrive until half-way through July though. |
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2020 16:40:24 GMT
100s of those on Amazon for same sort of prices without having to wait that length of time.
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Post by macca on May 31, 2020 17:31:40 GMT
100s of those on Amazon for same sort of prices without having to wait that length of time. Oh well, I can wait. It's only for the telly. I'll hook up the DVD player analogue outs to the pre-amp then I can at least use the Philips gear to watch films and play CDs. |
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Post by macca on Jun 1, 2020 12:32:06 GMT
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Post by jimbo on Jun 1, 2020 12:37:00 GMT
Nice power meters!
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Post by jandl100 on Jun 1, 2020 13:03:24 GMT
how's it all sounding? - pretty decent, I should think
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Post by macca on Jun 1, 2020 13:05:03 GMT
Not tried it yet, back to work, lunchtime over  |
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Post by macca on Jun 1, 2020 17:02:52 GMT
Well I'm baffled by this thing. Can't get a peep out if it. Powers up okay but just nothing is going to the power amp. Tried all the outputs. Tried two different sources, tried both inputs. Even resorted to just pressing all the buttons at random. Absolutely nothing. Can't figure it out.
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Post by Bigman80 on Jun 1, 2020 18:03:02 GMT
Well I'm baffled by this thing. Can't get a peep out if it. Powers up okay but just nothing is going to the power amp. Tried all the outputs. Tried two different sources, tried both inputs. Even resorted to just pressing all the buttons at random. Absolutely nothing. Can't figure it out. Not got the monitor setting pressed in have you? |
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Post by macca on Jun 1, 2020 18:09:32 GMT
Like I say I tried all the buttons...
Now done a full trouble-shooting routine. Sound on right channel, nothing on the other. Swap over cables to the power amp, and the working channel swaps over. So the pre-amp is dead on left channel.
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Post by Bigman80 on Jun 1, 2020 18:39:26 GMT
Like I say I tried all the buttons... Now done a full trouble-shooting routine. Sound on right channel, nothing on the other. Swap over cables to the power amp, and the working channel swaps over. So the pre-amp is dead on left channel. Hmmmm dont have much luck do you!!! |
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Post by macca on Jun 1, 2020 18:58:11 GMT
I don't get it. Previous owner delivered it to my house in person, it's not like it has been bashed about by couriers or anything.
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Post by Bigman80 on Jun 1, 2020 18:59:27 GMT
I don't get it. Previous owner delivered it to my house in person, it's not like it has been bashed about by couriers or anything. Have you asked previous owner about it? |
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Post by macca on Jun 1, 2020 18:59:46 GMT
Think I'll open it up and see if it's anything obvious. Of course it never is but I always live in hope.
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Post by macca on Jun 1, 2020 19:01:29 GMT
I don't get it. Previous owner delivered it to my house in person, it's not like it has been bashed about by couriers or anything. Have you asked previous owner about it? No point. He's 100 percent, there's no way he sold it me knowing it was faulty. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2020 19:08:33 GMT
What inputs are you using? Use one of the tape ones - and switch in mono.
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Post by Bigman80 on Jun 1, 2020 19:16:57 GMT
Have you asked previous owner about it? No point. He's 100 percent, there's no way he sold it me knowing it was faulty. Well, no he may not have sold it to you faulty, but sometimes there may be a quirk or something that they know that you dont. |
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Post by macca on Jun 1, 2020 19:31:45 GMT
What inputs are you using? Use one of the tape ones - and switch in mono. The input options are Tuner, and Aux and then there's three phono inputs and two tape inputs. I didn't try the tape inputs, seems unlikely they would be fine if both Tuner and Aux are not? |
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Post by macca on Jun 1, 2020 19:33:12 GMT
No point. He's 100 percent, there's no way he sold it me knowing it was faulty. Well, no he may not have sold it to you faulty, but sometimes there may be a quirk or something that they know that you dont. He would have mentioned it I'd have thought. I mean you would, wouldn't you? |
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Post by Bigman80 on Jun 1, 2020 19:54:20 GMT
Well, no he may not have sold it to you faulty, but sometimes there may be a quirk or something that they know that you dont. He would have mentioned it I'd have thought. I mean you would, wouldn't you? Well, ye but who knows |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2020 20:00:25 GMT
Are you using the 2 output? And have you switched mono in?
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Post by macca on Jun 1, 2020 20:01:25 GMT
Maybe I;ll mention it to him but it would have to be the weirdest pre-amp in the world if it isn't faulty. I can get it fixed as soon as stupid lockdown finishes. It's no big deal.
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