Pretty sure my parents will ask if it’s a bomb if they see this, lol. Temporary wiring hell, my 1ft RCAs are at another place.
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Anyone have expeience with this?
You guys are great. Thanks all for the kind words. I thoroughly enjoyed the whole process of this. It was genuinely fun tinkering and comparing.
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I’ve heard it briefly at a friends house and it was solid, does what’s advertised. Didn’t blow me away or anything but I do think it’s a quality product
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One of the wonderful things about this hobby, the tweaking never stops lol
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Fun fact: It’s a chinese brand, they just put greek letters there because “it looked good”… and apparently it translates to “straw” (as in “straw hat”), in greek.
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Thanks. I’ve added these to my Amazon Wish List. I’ll definitely give it a shot in the future.
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Could this go between a pre amp and power amp? Or is it better to go source> buffer >pre>amp?
Hmmm I would go source > buffer > preamp > poweramp
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You can go either way. If you put it between the preamp and power amp, then ALL of your sources will take on the tube sound. If you put it between source and preamp, then just that source will take on the tube sound.
Edit: This of course assumes you have more than one source and you use your preamp as a switcher.
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I have an emotiva pre and power amp. What’s this buffer gonna do for the sound?
Yea I was kinda wondering if it would better to get a phono tube pre and then also this buffer to hook up to a dac. Or just use the buffer for both
If you want to tuberize (that’s a made up word 
) all of your music, then yeah stick it between the preamp and amp. Then you don’t need to buy both a tube phono preamp AND a buffer, you can get this buffer and then any phono preamp. But if you want the option of solid state sounds for some sources and tube for others, connect as @M0N suggests.
Assuming this buffer is just a more expensive version of the same basic thing I was testing, I hope I answered this question in the OP.
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This would most likely add a bit of warmth, reduce a bit of harshness, add longer decay and the illusion of a bit more space. Not massive but def noticeable
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@Bmn1251 be careful with that buffer, it looks like it’s now being sold as Aimpire so it might be a worse clone (Aimpire has taken over some topping and little bear products and are sending worse clones under that name)
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Aimpire cloning Yaqin? Augh. AFAIK they “clone” 100$-or-less stuff from Topping… I hope they don’t start cloning D50S and D1s and whatever (and other brands)… Maybe they’ll just get kicked out of Amazon too because too many returns.
I hope that’s just temporary.
That’s not the chi-fi takeover we want. 
Yeah it’s kinda pissing me off lol
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The Aimpire Strikes Back
(it had to be done)
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