Gain and level controls on an amplifier-a good thing?


Was looking at some amplifiers and they had gain and level controls, most amplifiers don't have these things. Is this a good thing, desirable?

Seems like it might be a good thing but how come so few amplifiers have these things.

emergingsoul

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@goodlistening64 

Awesome comment. I guess in a biamp World, the amplifiers in use would greatly benefit from gain controls

@goodlistening64 

You have a lovely basement space and the point of egress with those double doors is very interesting I guess you don't have any water issues. 
 

@mulveling

Amazing looking system you have and that alpine height turntable is really cool. I was thinking about Vac a while back. But incorporating it into the home theatre environment didn’t seem right.

For biamping I am trying tubes and solid state and the results are very good. I’m trying out mc901s and it is achieving what I was pursuing. Being able to change the gain controls it's definitely necessary. I'm not sure if it interferes with signal path quality all that much although it is a concern.