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Oomph or pressure?

I currently am using a Emia autoformer as my preamp. It sounds fantastic but one thing I noticed is I have to turn the volume up quite a bit to get any oomph out of it.

is that normal for a passive?

would a active pre be better at it? And at lower volume?

im looking at Allnic as well as Others.

my system is near idea for passive but just wonder with a good preamp what I would hear.

my current setup is Zu def 4 speakers and a Audion silvernight with a allnicc1201 phono pre and a Well tempered gta table.

thanks, Scott
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analogluvr
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 I went through a period where I was very interested in passive but ultimately found an active gave me better involvement with the music. I found the passive to lack dynamics and drive in the music basically the same as the complaint in this thread. 
 I do think a passive with the unity gain buffer may be a good compromise as  it's true what atmosphere is saying, there are impedance issues but we do have plenty of game in our systems.
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