Tube Rolling in my PV 5

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I am looking to tighten up the bass in my PV 5. My goal is to get a little more definition and loose a little of the mushiness.

Which tubes are most important to tone in the PV 5?

What do other people roll in to change tone?
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Do you use the fono stage?
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Yes. Almost exclusively.
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BillyB wrote:Yes. Almost exclusively.
...as in you feed a separate linestage with the Record Outs?
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jeffreybehr wrote:
BillyB wrote:Yes. Almost exclusively.
...as in you feed a separate linestage with the Record Outs?
I would image it's, turntable --> phono input on PV5 --> Amp. If you fed the turntable into the linestage inputs on the PV5 that would be rather low volume.
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jeffreybehr wrote:
BillyB wrote:Yes. Almost exclusively.
...as in you feed a separate linestage with the Record Outs?
I would image it's, turntable --> phono input on PV5 --> Amp. If you fed the turntable into the linestage inputs on the PV5 that would be rather low volume.
Indeed. He wrote fono almost exclusively, so I assumed he'd use the fono input and then possibly feed that signal, using Record Out, to a separate line stage. Else, he's not using the fono stage 'exclusively', but perhaps that's not what he meant.

I'm trying to determine if he uses the linestage of the PV5.
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