Kailin Audio Enhancer

hmen · « **on:** 6 Nov 2004, 08:02 pm »

I saw this for sale on Audiogon and I have no idea what it is. I think it's supposed to go between a source and the amp. The ad promises to make your stereo sound more "fruity". It's also supposed to give you "best-terseness". Anybody know what this thing is?

http://cgi.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/auc.pl?intatube&1099799743&1099770513

mcgsxr · « **Reply #1 on:** 6 Nov 2004, 08:04 pm »

all jokes aside, is this a tube buffer? Looks like that is what it is.

Mark in Canada

cjr888 · « **Reply #2 on:** 6 Nov 2004, 08:21 pm »

Looks as such..

> 3. LISTEN TO THE SOUND AS FRUITY, WARMNESS AND MUCH MORE.

You really need to give it a shot and post your impressions. I've never heard a fruity audiophile system.

bubba966 · « **Reply #3 on:** 6 Nov 2004, 08:26 pm »

Quote from: cjr888

> 3. LISTEN TO THE SOUND AS FRUITY, WARMNESS AND MUCH MORE.

You really need to give it a shot and post your impressions. I've never heard a fruity audiophile system.

Ohhh, that joke's waaaaaay too easy.

hmen · « **Reply #4 on:** 6 Nov 2004, 08:31 pm »

This joke is even easier:
If you want your system to sound fruity play a Peter Allen record.

mca · « **Reply #5 on:** 6 Nov 2004, 11:49 pm »

I had a look at this thing this morning on Audiogon. I was tempted to send an email to tell them they could probably do more business if you could understand their ads

doug s. · « **Reply #6 on:** 8 Nov 2004, 03:00 pm »

yup, that's a tube buffer stage. shows up on http://cattylink.com/ for $100 (plus shipping, of course). i have an ase z-man tube buffer stage that i like to use, so this item seems quite interesting to me. (i actually offered the seller $150, shipping included, when he had these f/s a few months ago, but he respectfully declined.) i have used the z-man between tuner & preamp, & between cdp & preamp w/nice results - warms up the sound, w/o any loss of detail. i presently use a z-man between a creek obh-12 passive pre & my amp(s). i am supposed to get my melos preamp back from melos w/a new tube wolume pot upgrade. i will likely pull the z-man from its present location, & re-install it between tuner or dac & preamp...

doug s.

jswallac · « **Reply #7 on:** 8 Nov 2004, 04:17 pm »

I really do not know much about this particular Kailin product, but I would be careful about buying anything from Kailin or from this seller. Quite a few posts over at Audioasylum.com regarding Kailin and not much of it is good. http://db.audioasylum.com/cgi/m.mpl?forum=amp&n=21586&highlight=kailin&session= is one example.