sonicbath
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Hello everyone!
I am new here and would like to say HELLO!!
I have done some extensive searches of forums and gleaned some great information, but I still need some advise from you Stax Guru's.
Some History:
I've recently dug out my Lambda Pro Sigs/SRM-T1 combo out of the closet and quite frankly they sounded very bad. One earspeaker was about 6db down at the onset and got worse as time progressed (with eventual breakup). Swapping tubes and then elements determined it was a bad element so they were replaced with new 4040 elements (WOW... expensive!!)
. Problem fixed... or so I thought.
After some break in time they started to sound much better (imbalance gone) but not as great as I remembered. I found Dr. KG's instructions on differential & offset adjustment (wow do these drift during warmup). Helped a lot, THANKS!!
My next step is to replace the tubes (found some great advise here, thanks). I will then rewire.
Some Questions:
Is there a way to replace the stock potentiometer with a better unit? I have some S&B (silver) 102MkIII's lying around
Also, is there a way to convert the SRM-T1 into balanced inputs?? I see some empty pads on the PCB right next to the single ended input wires and thought, "can it be this easy"?? All my gear is balanced and it would be very nice if this can be done.
Any direction or advice would be GREATLY appreciated.
Thanks... Steen
I am new here and would like to say HELLO!!
I have done some extensive searches of forums and gleaned some great information, but I still need some advise from you Stax Guru's.
Some History:
I've recently dug out my Lambda Pro Sigs/SRM-T1 combo out of the closet and quite frankly they sounded very bad. One earspeaker was about 6db down at the onset and got worse as time progressed (with eventual breakup). Swapping tubes and then elements determined it was a bad element so they were replaced with new 4040 elements (WOW... expensive!!)
After some break in time they started to sound much better (imbalance gone) but not as great as I remembered. I found Dr. KG's instructions on differential & offset adjustment (wow do these drift during warmup). Helped a lot, THANKS!!
My next step is to replace the tubes (found some great advise here, thanks). I will then rewire.
Some Questions:
Is there a way to replace the stock potentiometer with a better unit? I have some S&B (silver) 102MkIII's lying around
Also, is there a way to convert the SRM-T1 into balanced inputs?? I see some empty pads on the PCB right next to the single ended input wires and thought, "can it be this easy"?? All my gear is balanced and it would be very nice if this can be done.
Any direction or advice would be GREATLY appreciated.
Thanks... Steen