I saw Musical Fidelity has come out with a special edition x10 v3 tubed buffer. This piece is to be hooked between your cd player and amp or between pre and power amp or even in a tape loop to give your system the sound of tubes. They say no added noise or distortions. I was torn between the solid state equipment I have now and a tube system I listened to. I was wondering if this piece could possibly bring me the best of both worlds. I have MF's X-can headphone amp. It has either one or two tubes but if they didn't tell me I wouldn't have known. This is a nice piece but it doesn't reproduce the same presence I heard from tubes.

So if anyone can relay their experience with the buffer or compare it to the X-can sound I would greatly appreciate it. If interested the buffer costs $399. from www.musicdirect.com