First of all Hi all as I'm a "rooky" in this Forum.
The reason of this post is that I'm facing an issue with my Amp: a McIntosh MC2102 (8 KT88 valves).
Everything was OK (perfect, I would say...) for about 7 months. Then, all of a sudden, I switched everything on and I started to listen an annoying presence of "boomy" sound when low frequency instruments were played. I'm not talking about some extra-bass but a "boomy-effect" (sorry if I do not use the right terms... my English is really poor) that is really disturbing also the medium frequencies.
Of course I did all the possible tests: nothing changed in the listening room, I changed CD-player, I changed Turntables, I changed Loudspeakers, I changed cables, I connected the cd-player directly to the amp excluding the pre-amp (Mc-Intosh). The issue is in the Final amp.
As I have no experience in the "valves world" as I always had solid state gear, my question is: according to You, could it be something related to valves? If not what could it be? At the moment I'm managing the situation (heavily...) using the tone-control on the pre-amp.
The strange thing is that for the past 7 months (NOTHING was changed in the meanwhile, not even the room furniture) everything was OK...
Thanks to anybody who might give me some suggestion.
First of all Hi all as I'm a "rooky" in this Forum.
The reason of this post is that I'm facing an issue with my Amp: a McIntosh MC2102 (8 KT88 valves).
Everything was OK (perfect, I would say...) for about 7 months. Then, all of a sudden, I switched everything on and I started to listen an annoying presence of "boomy" sound when low frequency instruments were played. I'm not talking about some extra-bass but a "boomy-effect" (sorry if I do not use the right terms... my English is really poor) that is really disturbing also the medium frequencies.
Of course I did all the possible tests: nothing changed in the listening room, I changed CD-player, I changed Turntables, I changed Loudspeakers, I changed cables, I connected the cd-player directly to the amp excluding the pre-amp (Mc-Intosh). The issue is in the Final amp.
As I have no experience in the "valves world" as I always had solid state gear, my question is: according to You, could it be something related to valves? If not what could it be? At the moment I'm managing the situation (heavily...) using the tone-control on the pre-amp.
The strange thing is that for the past 7 months (NOTHING was changed in the meanwhile, not even the room furniture) everything was OK...
Thanks to anybody who might give me some suggestion.