[Vintage-Audio] Re: preamp troubleshooting

Thu Aug 22 09:54:02 2002

Rudy,

> You may be reading too much into this... sounds to me like a bad tube or
> dirty socket.
Thanks for the help.  No tubes on this preamp.  This is one of the
first SS preamps from McIntosh (the C24 was the first).

For more info, see:
http://www.sundial.net/~rogerr/preamps.htm#c26

I've cleaned the contacts earlier in the year but can try again.

Thanks again for the help.

rick

> Rudy
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rick Larson" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 8:11 AM
> Subject: [Vintage-Audio] preamp troubleshooting
> 
> 
> > 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.
> >