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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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I want to chime in with a vote for the TVC. I have the Mark I version(much better than the Mark II) of the TX-102s in a custom made preamp. I have heard the Placette and the Reference Line Preeminence 1B. Neither of them could come close to the sound of a TVC in my system. I have owned and heard many a preamp over the last 10 years, and this thing is far and away the best I have heard.

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