bluelobster

Last week I hooked up an amp I had been going over and when I powered up the brief flash told me I had a short. Unfortunatly my Quartet speakers were affected I think. The mids are real muddy now, especially sounds like guitars. I would appreciate any leads on where to look, hoping it might have stopped in the crossover network(open cap maybe?). The reason I found this out, I put my Scott amp online to give it whirl and thought it was the problem. Next bought my H-K amp into play and the problem still persists. Must be the speakers then.

Fyi It was explained to me that 12ax7 and 12at7 and for the most part the 12**7 family are similar in build, different in character(personality?). So the 12at7 could be described as a 12ax7 on LSD. Clear as mud?

I'm sure by now a new set of caps in the signal path is due as well as a check to see if the rectifiers are selenium and get those replaced. If the sound is good, I am partial to tubes, give it a tune up!

I've tried 2 different amps since, I thought it was a problem initally with a scott amp but I get the same result with my H-K amp also.

Last week I hooked up an amp I had been going over and when I powered up the brief flash told me I had a short. Unfortunatly my Quartet speakers were affected I think. The mids are real muddy now, especially sounds like guitars. I would appreciate any leads on where to look, hoping it might have stopped in the crossover network(open cap maybe?)