Popular Post sandyk Posted February 3, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted February 3, 2018 25 minutes ago, esldude said: Well a tube buffer would have no gain. Provide some high input impedance and low output impedance. Might impart a bit of the tube sound. Though often if well designed they sound about the same as solid state device. Though if you are wishing for the tube sound maybe that isn't well designed for the purpose. I have previously seen numerous member reviews in another mainly Tube type forum ( Musical Fidelity mainly) where the tube buffers were specifically used to impart a tube flavour, and all of them did to some degree. Why anyone would use a well designed neutral sounding vacuum tube buffer, with it's higher running costs, warm up delays etc. over a similar performing Solid State Buffer beats me ! If a buffer is used in conjunction with a vacuum tube output stage based DAC, surely a neutral sounding solid state buffer would make more sense, due to it's normally lower output impedance, and ability to correctly drive all types of power amplifiers ? esldude and Spacehound 2 How a Digital Audio file sounds, or a Digital Video file looks, is governed to a large extent by the Power Supply area. All that Identical Checksums gives is the possibility of REGENERATING the file to close to that of the original file. PROFILE UPDATED 13-11-2020 Link to comment
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