Grant Fidelity B-283 Tube Buffer: Worthwhile or No

Hi. I agree I heard a selection of Grant Fidelity products last Weekend and I agree with Elizabeth

Give them a miss.

Des

GF is just rebadged chinese stuff(good or bad) marked up that you can buy from ebay or direct from chinese website.

Thanks, everyone. I kind of suspected this was the case.

What's an inexpensive tube preamp of fairly good quality?

The real use for a tube buffer is not to tailor the sound, though it will for better or worse, but to make impedance differences between source and preamp or preamp and amp more system-friendly. This is accomplished via a high input impedance on the buffer, which in turn outputs a very low impedance.

The EE BBA I used for impedance matching added other things to the sound I didn't like.

I use mine for internet radio. Makes a big difference with compressed source.

Not advised if you use a tube CDP, though.