They don’t have to be.
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Tell that to my son and his fiance’…
After putting 10dB whirlwind attenuators between my BHK pre and BHK300s, as was suggested on this thread, and running for a few hours, I am getting unbelievable SQ coming from a dead silent background! It’s like using a Mcintosh, that sounds really good!
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Glad it worked out. I have used both SE and Balanced Rothwell’s for years to solve gain issues and never noticed any sound degradation.
Thanks for the suggestion
Ron, I feel a tad bad for you. The Janus is opening up alot already. Oh, I couldn’t resist since I had them laying around. I replaced the 6922 in the output stage with BHK Tungs from Upscale. Sweet!
Congrats to you. That’s so generous of you; I hope your son and his fiancé are appreciative.
Ron, I moved the jumper in the Janus for -12 DB. Seems to helped a tad with tube hiss ( 93 DB speakers ). But the tubes don’t seem as happy. Did you have any odd noise with the -12 setting? The unit I bought was NOS, and I think Aesthitix made some changes since. Software, and tubes are different now I read. Does anyone know what tubes they go with now?
Leaning toward sending it in for update, black panel, trigger output mod and signature upgrade in June. What is odd, I am now getting similar noise as I did with the BHK. It’s not the amps, with preamp off it’s not there. I will try to find out if it’s the other gear? Maybe the wifi?
Not sure which factory tubes they are using currently, there is a great thread on Aesthetix tube rolling on the audiogon forums.
Also, Andy at Vintage Tube Services is a wealth of knowledge on tubes for Aesthetix gear, you may want to give him a call…
-JP
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I emailed Andy.
If the Janus keeps improving, I can say I think I have a preference…
Seems like I have a failing or noisy tube in the Janus. Swapped out the Sovtek 6922 installed a Gold Lion from BHK OEM amp. Noise is far less. I am less than impressed with the Sovtek tubes. I thought I read somewhere that they now run JJ’s? I plan to email or call to ask on Monday
Maybe this should be the Janus thread- thread name is a misnomer.
Yes. Agreed. I just started a new post.
Darrenv- thx wasn’t meant in a mean spirit- good to know some people know the diff
It’s all good.
Avoid fixed attenuators. I tried them between my Rogue RP-5 and amp… The sound gets slightly “jekko” sounding imo. I placed a Schiit SYS between the pre and amp…not one bit of sound change.
I don’t see why you are getting unbearable tube hiss with both a BHK pre and amps? Even on high efficiency speakers.