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ModWright Tube Buffer

Does anyone have any experience with the ModWright Analog Bridge Tube Buffer? I'm thinking about adding it between my Musician Pegasus R2R dac and a Yamaha A-S1200, but am a little put off by the price (~ $3,000 used) considering it's nearly as much as the Yamaha.

I'm generally satisfied with the Yamaha/Pegasus combination, but miss the tube flavor that used to power my Klipsch Cornwall IVs. I've contemplated returning to a full tube amp, but I really don't want to deal with the revolving door of tube replacement (I put a lot of hours per week on my system). 

Thanks for your thoughts.

br3
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onhwy61
5,433 posts
 

If you want to get serious about a tube buffer -- https://spl.audio/en/spl-produkt/tube-vitalizer/.

I used one for about three years.  In use it can be complicated or quite simple.  It's balanced input/output only.

boltapuresource
34 posts
 

I had the original Musical Fidelity tube buffer back in 1996.  Excellent build quality and made in England.  I think it was $200.00 if I recall and had a cool design.  
 

It didn’t hurt the sound at all, but also didn’t make any appreciable positive difference either.   It was certainly cool looking though.   I ended up selling it along with the matching Musical Fidelity X-DAC a few years later.  

kennyc
2,873 posts
 

I have a high quality SS, tempted to try the Analog Bridge. 

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dhungana
52 posts
 

I have a similar product the Gold Note Tube 1012 and it does a great job adding tube flavor into my stack. I have used it with a full stack Gold Note Pre, Phono, Amp as well as with non-Gold Note components, but of course it works better with the all Gold Note stack. I the complete Gold Note stack. 

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oddiofyl
4,567 posts
 

Personally I would just buy a tube preamp.....   

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