customds OP t1_iu56rib wrote on October 28, 2022 at 5:05 PM

Reply to comment by PutPineappleOnPizza in My setup including retired cans on the monitor of shame. by customds

Listening to anything with a guitar is enjoyable with distortion, same with certain voices. I enjoy an overall warm profile so this sweetens up some of the colder cans. But I listen to a lot of hip hop which has intentionally distorted bass to start with. Certain tracks become so muddy through the preamp that it sounds like +30 gain on everything lol.

I’ll try burning in the tubes a bit more perhaps. Only been running it maybe 10 hours.

PutPineappleOnPizza t1_iu5k8zd wrote on October 28, 2022 at 6:35 PM

Good luck, it could help or do absolutely nothing. I have tubes that never hummed to begin with, some that stopped humming and some that never stopped. I also had one tube that was weirdly broken and it distorted so crazy that the music was all messed up. The replacement was fine and showed none of these problems.

Tubes are weird lol.