Fosi Audio P3 Tube Preamp Headphone Amplifier Home Audio Preamplifier Mini Vacuum Pre Amp Receiver with Bluetooth aptX LL HD Bass Treble Tone Controls for HiFi Stereo Active Speakers with RCA AUX Jack

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.

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.

Pros: I have been a musician and music fan for my entire life. I have a substantially large music collection of many different genres. I’m one of those people who listens to the entire album with headphones or sitting in the center between two speakers, reading along with the lyric sheet. Sound quality and production are very important to me. I prefer studio recordings vs. live recording for that reason alone. Lets just say I’m a wanna’ be audiophile. When I received my Fosi P3 it changed the entire listening experience for me. I don’t know if it’s the tubes and the chips that give the music a spacial and more separated, clearer stereo sound. But whatever it is, Fosi got it right! I’m using it as a pre amp for my old Sony receiver which I never really was happy with the sound of, and now the Fosi P3 has improved the sound 100%. The clarity and spacial separation of hearing each instrument individually and and every little nuance in the production of a recording is truly brilliant and amazing. I run the Fosi’s output to the input of a channel on the Sony with bass & treble on the Sony in the flat position. So I only use the amp part of the Sony for power. I have the volume of the Sony at the two o’clock position. I use the Fosi’s delicate and accurate volume, bass and treble controls only. If you move these controls ever so slightly you can hear a substantial difference in eq. The bluetooth is perfect and connects immediately to my iPhone with no drop outs, static or interference. I intend to have a Fosi in every room of my home. Features I would like to see in Fosi’s future are multiple inputs and a remote control. Did I mention how great headphones sound in the Fosi? A new and surprisingly wonderful experience altogether. Another cool feature is when you plug in headphones, it mutes the speakers. I myself love this feature. I could go on and on but I’ll just say, you will not find a better way of listening to music for under one hundred dollars. If you really love and listen to music like I do, buy the Fosi P3, You won’t be disappointed. Btw, I now have 3 of these little amps. The same one in all 3 separate roomsCons: Only 1 Input. No Remote.The tubes are difficult to insert. Fosi support was outstanding and sent me a video of unscrewing the gold rings out before inserting the tubes by even just unscrewing the gold ring was very difficult to unscrew and screw back in. Then the tubes are even more difficult to insert. I followed Fosi's instructions but the tube pins are definitely crooked and don't line up perfectly with the holes. You have to keep bending the pins carefully to get them to all fit in and when you do finally get them to line up the tubes have to be pressed down so hard that you feel you might break them. I took me almost 30 minutes to get 1 tube in. After buying 3 of these preamps, the tube insertion did not getting any easier, I have to say Fosi need to address this issue.