The other option you should look at is getting a hotter source for your passive preamp! My Gamut CD1R outputs 4-5volts, Theta, Wadia, and a number of other CDP's or DAC's have outputs and this works great with passive preamps. Also if you are running a passive preamp you should be making sure interconnects are short (.5meter- 1 Meter max.
Doesn't the Attenuator Pot in the most wide open position provide the purest path if the pot is not resistor based? so it shouldn't matter that you are all the way turned up.
Someone else will better describe what I just butchered!
If you haven't tried a Placette Passive you should! it's an amazing piece of equipment and Guy is awesome to work with (you give him the specs and he will tell it to you straight!)
Chris
Doesn't the Attenuator Pot in the most wide open position provide the purest path if the pot is not resistor based? so it shouldn't matter that you are all the way turned up.
Someone else will better describe what I just butchered!
If you haven't tried a Placette Passive you should! it's an amazing piece of equipment and Guy is awesome to work with (you give him the specs and he will tell it to you straight!)
Chris