wow, not only is your work excellent, its very fast too. you and clint e. make it look so easy, but i know it takes a lot of planning and expertise to do it as well as you do.

how long are you going to let everything break in?

normally new tube need abt 200-300 hour as for capacitor is 100 hour wut i know BlackGate need 500 hours not sure for Rubycon i think might be lesser

after break in wanna try for 6N23P tube but now no credit hehehe over spend for this month wait another month

How did the sound turn out Cuoreboy?

good day sir.. I am interested in building my own tube buffer, may i know where you got the schematics of the tube buffer that you built. thank you.

There are some simple buffers out there. The easiest that comes to mind are these ones:

http://www.platenspeler.com/diy/amps/uk_tubeclone_2.html

Have fun and keep us posted.

I've got 3 new ones in the works, one is for high-end and the other has a DAC built in and dual outputs, the other has a chip amp attached, the last 2 have a headphone jack too , all of course still affordable. The B-283 is still going strong (3rd generation now)

Cheers,
Ian