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Mid-Hi fi Phono preamp w/ volume control?

I am looking for a low priced (<$500 new or used) preamp with a phono stage or a phono preamp with a volume control. I currently have an old Dual belt drive with a Grado Red Cartridge, that I play through an old reciever in the basement, but I will be purchasing an AR ES-1 w/ Merril mods and a Clearaudio MM when a friend gets married.

This will be going thru the 2 ch bypass of a Sony TAP-9000 ES multichannel preamp, an Adcom 7500 power amp (next to go), and Dynaudio 1.8 mk II's.

I'm sold on SACD, even with the limited software, but I have too much vinyl(~700) that will never see high rez digital, or that the original CD sounds like garbage.

Thanks for any advice,

Jim
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Thanks for the info. I have heard the full featured unit, I think it was EAR 864?? and loved it, but it was too pricey for what I wanted. I will look into the 834 models with volume control. I agree that it doesn't fit the mid fi description, but I could suffer the indignity of better quality if I had to.

Thanks
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