Author Topic: Do Tube Buffers Really Improve Your Audio?  (Read 49458 times)

Offline steve

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Re: Do Tube Buffers Really Improve Your Audio?
« Reply #30 on: February 23, 2015, 09:00:02 PM »
Bypassing the analog op amp in the player (approx. 6db of gain) to one's outboard tube preamplifier is probably the best solution of all as it eliminates a stage. I have done it to NAD 921/925Bees with great success.

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