[Jim]

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PROBLEM: Like high end sounds but want to listen to LPs occasionally on my
iPod or similar.

Have a Linn/Dyanvector Ruby/Fidelix combination with a Berning TF-10 tube
pre-amp which has the capacitors going all over the circuit board. it has
already been to Berning to replace once and they are going again.
Introduces low end crackling when turned on for more than a few hours as
they presumably warm up, leak and overheat.

If they overheat they need better cooling. This is also the cheapest
fix. A car parts store will have a remote reading digital thermometer,
they work well. A little work with some aluminum sheet will probably do
the job if you are at all handy with tools. Or, somewhere I've seen
some cooling "collars" for tubes.

Haven't decided what to replace
it with yet. (no great rush as my Citation 11 is still awaiting return from
repairers as is my MR71 which was fully rebuilt to the highest standards and
then some cowboy started playing around with the stringing and managed to
stop it working altogether)

Want to put LPs onto my iPod: At first, '30s jazz, old Maggie Teyte
recordings, then I might get a bit more adventurous.

There used to be a product called Pinnacle Clean Plus which includes a
phono-pre-amp to put at the end of my pre-pre amp. It has been discontinued,
no one knows why (poss: Doesn't work with some new patch to XP, such as
SP2?)

Is there an alternative with which I wont be too disappointed? Does anyone
in the high end arena have any experience with this product or with ripping
LPs in an environment like this without spending a fortune on it?