Michael I’m curious, are you pairing your STA with a Don Sachs ? What speakers are you using ?
Good morning 🌞!
Yes, I have been pairing it with my Don Sachs preamp and my Daedalus Audio Apollo speakers. What I discovered was that the gain setting between the preamp and amp was a tad too high, which resulted in a ‘just barely noticeable’ hiss from the speakers.
I discussed this situation with Don, who said he could slightly decrease the gain setting from the second out while leaving the gain from the first out unchanged (because this best suits pairing to my Kootenay 120 amp). As long as I was going to have Don do this, I decided to have the caps changed to Vcaps, replace the volume control and a couple other things which have slipped my mind.
I got the preamp back last week, and I couldn’t be happier. [Okay. I’ll be happier once the new caps have fully burned in.] It now perfectly matches both amps.
Michael