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Passive Preamps w/ Transformer Volume Control

Anyone have first-hand experience with any of these?

I'm looking at passive TVC's from Music First Audio, Sonic Euphoria, etc. Any others out there I should be aware of?

Will be hooking up to Threshold SA/4e or SA/3.9e. Currently, they are both set up directly to CD players via variable out.

TIA
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Gregm:

MFA is Music First Audio, which is one of the ones I'm looking at.

My direct setup is fine. There are a couple of CD players that I like to get but they don't have variable out. So thus the need for gain control. Additional switching would be an added bonus.
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Teajay:

I am familiar with Bent. I believe Stevens & Billington (which owns Music First Audio aka MFA) provides the trannies for most TVC's including the ones for Bent.
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Lak:

That's just it, it difficult to find places/people who have actually auditioned this stuff. I am aware of the CI Audio's PLC-1 but I believe that still uses a resistor potentiometer.
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As between a resistor-based passive preamp and a TVC, are there any benefits of the former over the latter. From what I've heard and read, the answer is no. Any thoughts?
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Ozzy62:

The thresholds are definitely up to the task, as I've only used them directly connected to one input source without any preamp.

However, as I said before, I've been restricted to using CD players all of these years with a variable out.
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