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Cheap Amazon Chinese tube pre amps

Just curious, anyone here ever use one of the many cheap tube pre amps  on Amazon? The reviews are pretty good but not sure if I trust that crowd. For under $100 it makes me want to warm up my system. Rolling tubes is obviously going to be a part of the equation. My system is decent but not high end so I wonder if it might buff off some of the edges from my ss amp
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I bought one a while back. Xiang Shen or something like that. I replaced the tubes in it with some Electro Harmonix, then some Gold Lions.

It's not a good pre-amp.

Does it work? Yeah, it works......
Would I recommend one? No, I don't think I would.

It's just a "meh" piece of equipment, made with very cheap parts. 


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