I've got something that can glow in the dark too! Lots of Pics

[ballstothewall 10+ year member]

If you hold up on that, I will have mine up and running in a day or two hopefully. It looks nice though. I got mine for 289 brand new in box off of ebay, so you might want to keep that in mind, you might be able to get more power for not alot more money.

 

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If you hold up on that, I will have mine up and running in a day or two hopefully. It looks nice though. I got mine for 289 brand new in box off of ebay, so you might want to keep that in mind, you might be able to get more power for not alot more money.

If you know of any way to get more power for less money let me know. I have a dealer account at partsexpress so i get a small discount on all their products but it still is nice. But deff let me know if you can find a better amp that will power a dvc 2 ohm sub that can handle between 900-2000rms.

 

[ngsm13 5,000+ posts]

Tits man.

Port that 8a //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif... DO IT!

nG

 

[ballstothewall 10+ year member]

Tits man.
Port that 8a //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif... DO IT!

nG

I will.... I just don't have room for it this school year, once I move back, It will get ported. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/up2something.gif.dd110ecf3ae4b76050d87598f2f8de7c.gif

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

In a couple of months or so, after you've gotten used to the sound, you may want to swap out the stock tubes for something else...those look like 12AX7's? You can find new-old-stock ones on Ebay or at electronic swapmeets for cheap, and they'd sound a whole lot better than the ones that are in there now.

 

[ballstothewall 10+ year member]

In a couple of months or so, after you've gotten used to the sound, you may want to swap out the stock tubes for something else...those look like 12AX7's? You can find new-old-stock ones on Ebay or at electronic swapmeets for cheap, and they'd sound a whole lot better than the ones that are in there now.

I was going to ask you about those.... So that answeres my question. I'm not sure what the stock tubes are, but I read that people recommended swaping them out. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[thylantyr 10+ year member]

The Behringer preamp is a hybrid, hence a love/hate following. It's an opamp

{4580} based preamp with a tube circuit in the middle to add tube distortion by

turning the dial. The people hate it, hate it because there isn't enough distortion

or it's not he distortion sound they want, typically the hater compares the sound

of this unit to the sound of units costing 5x - 20x more which is a pure tube preamp,

not hybrid - unfair comparison.

The people that love it, love it because it's a low cost neutral preamp.

It doesn't add any coloration to the sound.

For home to pro audio, it's good because it interfaces low voltage home

audio gear to higher voltage pro audio gear so you can reduce amplifier

gain to get less hiss/noise, etc.

/rumor

I think those are low voltage tubes and the glow is LED's to make you think

the tubes are lit.

/true

Don't worry, they do the same thing in car audio tube

amplifiers, they use an opamp front end, tube middle, and transistor output

stage, and LED's on the tubes, but they charge a big premium for those

car amplifiers whereas Behringer products are priced lower but get a bad rap

by the snobo-philes. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

Give us a review of the preamp when the system is running. Listen for backround

noise/hiss, etc. I think it should be good as I use the DCX product which also

uses 4580 opamps and I haven't been able to find anything bad with the unit

soundwise.

 

[ballstothewall 10+ year member]

Ok, I will try to give a review, although I'm not sure how well these untrained ears will perceive the sound...

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

/rumorI think those are low voltage tubes and the glow is LED's to make you think

the tubes are lit.

I noticed that as well, the 12AU7's in my old line level preamp never used to glow quite that much //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif Tubes that glow that brightly usually have thoriated tungsten filaments, which those don't have...

 

[ballstothewall 10+ year member]

I noticed that as well, the 12AU7's in my old line level preamp never used to glow quite that much //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif Tubes that glow that brightly usually have thoriated tungsten filaments, which those don't have...

Well, I guess its time to take the case off and see if there are LED's....

results later.

 

[ballstothewall 10+ year member]

Well, Behringer dosen't even use LED's. They have small incadesant bulbs back there, being sneaky and having the power to them delayed and slowly stepped up, so they take just a little to start to "Glow" like you would think Tubes should. I have pics that I will upload later... With the light bulbs out, they don't glow worth a ****, but although the glow is fake, it still looks pretty cool.

*edit* Yes they are 12AX-7's

 

[ballstothewall 10+ year member]

More Pics...Ya'll can figure out what they are...

 

[PV Audio 5,000+ posts]

Tell me how that amp works out, I want to setup my RL-Ps on the 1200 watt version.

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

you have balls for putting that sub near your desktop like that.

Nice amp.

 

[PV Audio 5,000+ posts]

Magnets love computers.