Passive, Balanced, Remote Pre?


Hi all..

I've heard the Placette pre is a wonderful product, but its cost when balanced is simply too high for me. Can anyone else recommend a balanced passive preamp (with remote) which will screw with the sound as little as possible? Mainly, I just want to manage volume levels on my Stax amp, and don't want to lose my balanced advantaged (Balanced DAC, AMP, cables to phones..etc)

-Adam
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Showing 1 response by lthkeepr

The Pass Labs Aleph P with remote and balanced inputs is roughly $1700-$1900 average used range. Is this too high for you? It's basically a passive unit, unless you crank it past 3oclock, I believe, and is a definite class A rated passive.
Anyway it's all I can think of, and it doesn't affect the sound really..great product for a passive. It's built like a tank as well. Good luck.
Oh, btw, stay away from the Adcom GFP-750!...it's not as good as ratings indicate (can you say payola?!!!).
oood Luck