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In Reply to: My problem with Musical Fidelity's "Tube Buffer" posted by nightdoggy on March 16, 2007 at 17:27:21:
Why bolt-on yet another stage in an otherwise clean and transparent audio chain? You may as well just throw a towel over your speakers if a veiled sound is what you seek. ;-)In my opinion and experience slapping an unnecessary tube buffer stage into the chain might take some 'edge' off potentially harsh CD's or other music sources but the at the expense of transparency and dynamics. I would rather see a real gain stage in the front end in the form of a quality vacuum tube preamp.
In the case of CD players, I've compared one with a simple tube buffer stage and another that implemented a real tube gain stage off the DAC. The one with the simple buffer only softened and veiled the sound (compared to it's solid-state output section) while the one with a real tube gain stage was magical. (Cary CD 308T vs 303/300 CDPs. I love Cary products but it's no secret that I never cared much for the CD 303/300. I've written about it a lot here).
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- An expensive gimmick in my view... - AbeCollins 21:53:28 03/16/07 (0)
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