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tube preamp in SS receiver loop
I am very grateful for all of your thoughtful responses, and am learning a lot! I have been away from all this for a few weeks due to a frantic new job with ungodly deadlines, and before reading some of the more recent posts here -- in fact not re... 
tube preamp in SS receiver loop
Thanks. That was my intention, to plug it into the receiver's main ins, with the preamp outs feeding into it. But it will be fun to try different configurations. Unless it sounds awful. In which case it won't be all THAT much fun. 
tube preamp in SS receiver loop
Thanks, Seattlehifi. I see what you're saying about the preamp over a buffer. Clearly I have a lot of factors to consider. I'm still leaning toward the buffer for now, maybe the yaqin cd3 (of course, the whole cd1,2 or 3 issue is another big debat... 
tube preamp in SS receiver loop
Thanks, Ivan. You have it right. I have a typical vintage solid state midfi receiver with phono, tape, tuner, aux inputs. I started looking into this controversial buffer business, which led me to a reasonable and fairly popular tube preamp, with ... 
tube preamp in SS receiver loop
Thanks very much for those insightful responses. I agree, Newbee, that the tape loop would make sense if I do go the tube buffer route. Thus I probably should not opt for the multi-source tube preamp but a tube buffer instead, maybe with a separat...