[Ruphus]

Hi Lucas,

You´re wellcome, it has been fun!

After reading your post I tried about the grounding things in the way you recommended. The hum is still there when touching the volume knob. Maybe someone had opened it and when closing it had a cable in contact with chassis or something like that or maybe this box was a Monday unit ( just speculating, what do I know ).

I found your explanation about widened images very interesting. Your words after passing through my vague layman synapses sound plausible in a way. Like if inaccurate reproduction could be meaning sounds spreaded all over the place.

But somehow it makes me wonder. I havn´t made explicite tests comparing image width among different convertors. But the first thing I realized with my Lavry blue when it was new was that a stereo track made in my room ( two cardiods spaced ~ 1,8 meters away from each other ) here sounded fantastic in many ways, but also seemed very wide. ( The panning I believe must have been like each channel around 50% of its scale or so.)

Now, I don´t want to provoke you to judge about Lavry convertors, but I´m sure that you agree that they are great sounding stuff.

The track was made with a very good pre which I hadn´t experienced before that take, though.
What do you say, is the image of width only determined by convertors or also by the pre before it? And would the rule about image width apply in the same way to pre amplifiers?

Just curious.

Greets,

Ruphus