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RE: Do I Dare? Tube Buffers? Yes or No.

Posted by AbeCollins on April 10, 2017 at 07:54:32:

More like a mud machine as others have stated.

I owned a couple vacuum tube CD players from Cary. The Cary CD-308T used tubes in the DAC I-V converter stage and as a gain stage. It sounded wonderful. Their newer and much more expensive CD-303/300 only used tube buffers in the output stage. It sounded muffled or veiled.