🎶 Unleash Your Inner Audiophile!
The Fosi Audio P3 Tube Preamp is a mini vacuum preamp receiver designed for home audio enthusiasts, featuring true tube amplification, Bluetooth 5.1 connectivity, and versatile output options. With premium components and high fidelity performance, it delivers an exceptional audio experience for both active speakers and headphones.
G**Y
An audio game changer!!
I bought an Audio-Technica record player a while ago along with some powered speakers, but they weren't providing the sound I was looking for. Even though the AT turntable has a preamp, it just wasn't delivering the full sound I wanted. I kept seeing recommendations for preamps, so I took a chance with this one. I am so glad I did!!This preamp made a huge difference in adding the bass and punch my system needed! How much of a change did this make? I'll put it into perspective. Imagine having a lamp with a 25-watt bulb and then you switch the bulb out with a 75-watt bulb. You end up with a much brighter and better light that makes everything brighter and easier to see. Now, back to the preamp, adding this made the music brighter, and fuller and increased the bass!!That alone is amazing, but this preamp also has a headphone jack and Bluetooth! I can play music from the turntable or my phone or iPad through it and it sounds incredible! I was considering adding a subwoofer before I bought this preamp, now I'm wondering if I even need one since this added the low-end sound my system was lacking. Yes, it improves the sound that much...well, to me anyway.The small tubes that it comes with are not installed when you get the preamp, so you have to install them yourself and it can be a little bit of a challenge to line up all the prongs, but it's worth it. One of the tubes went in fairly easily and the other tube took a little while to get all the prongs lined up to fit in the holes, but I'm very happy with this purchase.If you're looking for an affordable tube style preamp, give this one a try!
A**R
best way to add system volume and tone controls.
I love how simple this little pre-amp is. The unit boast decent specs too, with SNR above 103 db. The volume and tone control knobs are small, but even my big hands manage to use them OK. The tone controls are not linear, but are useful once you get used to using very small adjustments, and work very well and very silently. The main reason I was attracted to this particular unit was that it had BlueTooth 5.1, which is a big sonic improvement, now that I've heard it. Auto pairing can be a bit of a bother if you use your phone's bluetooth for other things. At this price this little Fosi Audio P3 is both a bargain and a sonic suprise, worth every penny.
S**K
Works well for me!
The media could not be loaded. I may not be using this in my system to it's full extent, or as intended, but the Fosi P3 is doing exactly what I need it to do. No need for the Bluetooth, not using the tone controls or the volume control... BUT I needed to take the edge out of the top end of a Fosi BT20A Pro. While I've been very happy with the BT20A Pro, certain tones in the upper octaves can catch you by surprise... a little clangy, zingy, edgy (worsened by the speaker I use). I went with the P3 because I read so many times over how it's well paired with Fosi amps.Inserting the P3 between sources and the BT20A is all it needed. Edge rounded off nicely! BUT there's more! Unexpectedly, the P3 has brought more fullness to the sound from bottom to top. Instrument separation is clean... focus is tight. Class D amps get a rap for vocals being forward. I notice the depth is back a bit more now... vocals seem more precisely placed in the sound stage. I was using tone controls but I am now back to flat, where it "should" be. Now tone controls add juice instead of getting it to flat... flat is flat now. I don't know how "tubey" this bugger is... it's not "yummy" or "syrupy" or whatever the audiophile head words are... it took the edge off and left all of the precision and beefed up the bottom and top. For me, a fantastic addition to the kit.Why no tone controls or volume control? I'm glad you asked...I use a WiiM Pro Plus as a hub of sorts. That way I can control volume and use the EQ in the awesome WiiM app. Fluance RT 82 with an AT VMN30EN cart upgrade, into an iFi Zen phono, into the WiiM... clean pass through RCA to Fosi P3 and finally RCA into Fosi BT20A Pro with Sparkos SS3602 op amp upgrade. Streaming and phono go through the P3. The BT20A feeds Sony SSCS5 and Elac 1010 Sub (crossover is about 70) very nicely. Someday I'll upgrade that Sony, but for now, it works well for me. Full recommendation for this Fosi P3 use case.I'll also add that the biggest impact upgrade in the kit was the Sparkos op amps. Those little bad boys do amazing things for class D amps.
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