tc7240 convirted to a passive pream

[PaulBarnett]

Hi

Not really a digital question. but definitely a beresford question..........

I have a tc-7240 switch - used between a bushmaster or a cambridge 640p (arkless mods pending) and a nytech cta252/cxa252/arc101 pre/power/speakers ouput

It seems to me that it would be easy to mod the 7420 - it has 4 switchable inputs, and 2 switchable outputs - if I replaced the output switch with a variable resistor, I'd have a
rather nice passive preamp (with just one output channel pair). I could feed it (with suitable cables) direct into the nytech power amps, thus bypassing the cta preamp stage.

lots of pot choices here: http://www.hificollective.co.uk/components/potentiometers.html

so questions:

has anyone tried this?
is it worthwhile?
Stan: have you considered or tried this either as a mod or as a product?

[walpurgis]

Why not just make a separate passive pre-amp?

I've put together a few 'boxes with pots' in the past. They all tend to sound more or less the same though.

[PaulBarnett]

My thinking was; If I wanted a passive preamp, I could build one, or I could convert the 7240 I already have, which is
only one component away from already being a passive preamp.

so; cheaper, quicker, and probably better-looking, than built from scratch