If you turn up your headphone amp volume as far as it goes it is essentially out of the circuit. I have done this with my tube pre and my passive Passion Ultimate which has remote volume and better control of gain. I had no problems.
Passive preamp with integrated or headphone amp?
I am considering putting a passive preamp in front of my headphone amp to get
(1) finer volume adjustment levels;
(2) remote volume control.
Since there would be 2 gain controls in the chain, it would obviously hurt things somewhat (I guess). Has any one done this or have any thoughts? I was thinking of a Placette or similar one. If you have done this with an integrated amp using the volume-controlled-outputs, I would also be interested in the results, as this is basically the same thing.
(1) finer volume adjustment levels;
(2) remote volume control.
Since there would be 2 gain controls in the chain, it would obviously hurt things somewhat (I guess). Has any one done this or have any thoughts? I was thinking of a Placette or similar one. If you have done this with an integrated amp using the volume-controlled-outputs, I would also be interested in the results, as this is basically the same thing.
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