[Vintage-Audio] Re: preamp troubleshooting

Rick Larson [email protected]
Wed Aug 21 13:19:07 2002


Duane,

> Have you already done the obvious like cleaning the controls with a good quality
> contact solution? The answer may be this simple.	

Yes but is is always good to ask.  I cleaned them this spring
when I went through it.  I can clean them again to see if it helps.

Thanks for the suggestion.

rick
  
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> From: Rick Larson <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Vintage-Audio] preamp troubleshooting
> Date: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 11:11 AM
> 
> My McIntosh C26 preamp started cracking, poping, hissing, ...
> in the left channel.  Praying, turning it off and on again, and
> crying didn't seem to help.  Finally, no sound in the one channel.

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