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Which Passive Preamp --Bent Audio or Placette ?

I have been reading alot about passive preamps lately and the advantages and disadvantages of them.
I have read about resistor based volume controls such as the one on the Placette Passive, and transformer based volume controls such as the one on the Bent Audio NOH.
Has anyone owned or compared the Placette Passive Preamp and the Bent Audio NOH Passive preamp head-to-head?
If so, how do they compare sonically, and what are the sonic advantages and disadvantages in comparison to one another?
How does the passive Pass Labs Aleph, and the passive section of the Adcom GFP-750 compare to the Placette and the Bent Audio?
Thanks in advance!
daltonlanny

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Sorry to throw in yet another passive xformer-based preamp but I feel that it might be a useful input.
I have heard Antique Sound Labs T1-DT ($400) passive preamp & it's sound was really excellent. We were listening to some single-driver speakers from Carolina Audio & Cain&Cain. The power amps were also ASL, FYI.
The bigger brother to the T1-DT is the T2-DT ($800) & it is said that the sound improves even further. I have not heard the T2-DT.
FWIW. IMHO.
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