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In impatient, ill-advised. manic efforts to "compensate" for the EFFECTS of bad power I have swapped ICs, used different output taps, re-configured grounds, swapped tubes, re-positioned speakers, adjusted VTA, messed with my BR ports.  And I'm sure there's more.

And it's funny, because I can at times get a superficial "improvement" of just the "area" of sound I'm after; yet no matter how much the sound changes it stays "wrong" with the bad electricity.

It strikes me as odd that the phono stage tends to lose the ability to make "music" even before it shows the typical overt signs of bad electricity.  I have at different times (and more than once) blamed this "silent killer" effect on my cartridge, cartridge leads, my tonearm set-up, the gain tubes, the PS, the ICs, and even my amps.

I had a stretch there when it was hot but I was still getting good phono sound on the weekends, and I was hopeful to the point of bragging about it that I had simply lucked into a combination that would get me through the summer.  Of course, it got even hotter, and that was the end of that "solution".

Yes, I have stupidly wasted many hours and even whole days trying to "fix" bad power effects indirectly.

If there is an actual remedy for the bad power, I haven't found it.

APS to the rescue?

Best regards,
Paul S

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