eBay kit with tubes, transformer and poorly translated description - but what is it?

DannyP

Anyone know how this is intended to be used?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Buffer-Amplifier-Preamp-AMP-Pre-Amplifier-Matisse-Kit-Transformer-6N3-Tube-/111404456767?&_trksid=p2056016.l4276

ecc83

Pretty sure it is nothing you want for guitar. I believe it is a "boutique" "tube" pre amp for use in the feed from a CD player to a hi fi amp...

SO much wrong with that concept!

Dave.

jpfamps

L and R channels would imply some for of "hi fi" pre-amp.

jpfamps

ecc83 said:

Pretty sure it is nothing you want for guitar. I believe it is a "boutique" "tube" pre amp for use in the feed from a CD player to a hi fi amp...

SO much wrong with that concept!

Dave.

Indeed.

Almost as bad as a passive "pre-amp"!

DannyP

Thanks heavens for that, I thought it was something I didn't know I needed!

mart

Classic translation though:

Before this bravery is the famous horseshoe circuit ...... fruity and delicate voice, can listen to and.  ... xiao yu electronic garden layout ... ... make the person look at fondle admiringly. ... streaking more crazy.

Who was it asking how you write lyrics? Take some Chinese and mangle it by google translate.

ICBM

I don't actually think using a valve preamp to 'warm up' the sound of a hi-fi system is a wrong concept, providing you understand that the reason it might sound "better" is because technically it sounds "worse"! At that point you're into purely subjective listening pleasure.

But it's pretty definitely nothing that would be useful for guitar, unless you want to play your guitar through your stereo or something...