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Colin2040

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I am looking for valve phonos that have volume controls,I can only thinkof the Icon and one other and I cant remember its name right now,red with one valve coming through the top plate,Belllini or something like that.Any others that are out there?
 
Manley Steelhead too.

Just remembered, the k&k phono kit can be fitted with a volume control, and the Art Audio ones.
 
Not a lot is there? Pound for pound the Icon might be a good bet.Wasnt a fan of the EAR ,had one on trial some time ago thought the WAD one was good but no volume.I'll have a look at the K and K
 
You could always make up a pot in a box passive pre, that widens your choices a lot. An alps blue pot wired up with a shunt resistor will sound very good and only cost £15 or so plus a box and some sockets/wire.
 
I currently use a passive tvc and would like to keep it but I have a Dynavector P75 and I need to crank the volume up a bit when using the old gramaphone.Was going to go back to an active valve pre with phono but thought this would be a better altrnative.
 
Colin2040 said:
red with one valve coming through the top plate,Belllini or something like that.
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Rolls Bellari VP129. A low-end thingy with one triode at
the input of each channel, followed by an army of cheap opamps.

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Colin2040 said:
I currently use a passive tvc and would like to keep it but I have a Dynavector P75 and I need to crank the volume up a bit when using the old gramaphone.Was going to go back to an active valve pre with phono but thought this would be a better altrnative.
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is your problem a lack of gain from phono or uneven levels between inputs? in the first case a pot wouldn't solve the problem. neither in the second, for the same reason - AFAIK the fixed output is always set to the highest and a pot would only act as an attenuator. though with some of the top US preamps you can adjust levels between different inputs but it costs $$$$$$$$$
 
I think the real problem is I miss my valve phonio.I had thought my adding a valve phono with a volume pot I could set the gain on this and when switching between cd and vinyl it would be set at a higher level,from what you are saying this wont work which I suppose is why I asked the question.I think my real problem could be solved by putting back a valve phono and just turning the gain on my pre up a bit.
 

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