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    Quote Originally Posted by Yomanze View Post
    If your source can handle it, check out some innovative work in this area: https://www.audialonline.com/topics/...olume-control/

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    Interesting, Neil. I have read elsewhere about the growing popularity of shunt-type volume control arrangements. Being a bit of an untutored dabbler, however, I need very simple solutions. Plus for this particular passive pre, which is something that gets hauled out and pressed into service only occasionally as a temporary solution, I am not willing to throw a lot of money at it. Thanks for pointing this out, though. Cheers. IB.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Arkless Electronics View Post
    I'll be selling audio grade carrot juice for only £300 a litre shortly... free magic beans with order for first 10 customers
    Sorry Jez, that isn't audiophile at all - price per litre? You need to sell your carrot juice at £300 for a 10mL bottle. The stuff is precious and isn't meant to sloshed around all over the place, it needs to be carefully applied one drop at a time with the supplied cotton bud - which is a cryogenically treated cotton bud, of course.
    Then again, carrot juice can never compete with C37
    http://www.ennemoser.com/c37theory.html

    BTW, if you can make any sense of C37 please explain it to me

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    Quote Originally Posted by RothwellAudio View Post
    Sorry Jez, that isn't audiophile at all - price per litre? You need to sell your carrot juice at £300 for a 10mL bottle. The stuff is precious and isn't meant to sloshed around all over the place, it needs to be carefully applied one drop at a time with the supplied cotton bud - which is a cryogenically treated cotton bud, of course.
    Then again, carrot juice can never compete with C37
    http://www.ennemoser.com/c37theory.html

    BTW, if you can make any sense of C37 please explain it to me
    Ah right! I'll put up the price and include a fuse that has passed through the digestive tract of a Civet cat... as one is getting far less for ones money I'll obviously put the price up further to make it even more effective.

    I had a quick glimpse at C37..... Having seen the light I'll be using these principles from now on... how stupid I've been to believe in all that Ohm's Law mumbo jumbo for all these years...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Infinitely Baffled View Post
    I took up Alan on his offer, and I'll report back on the forum with what I find.
    Well, blow me down. This log faking business really works!
    Alan's resistors arrived in this morning's post. They were absolutely minuscule, which was good because that made them far easier to install in the limited space available in my little box - you could very nearly fit them in between the pins on the pot. When I tried it out, I found the volume level still rose a little more steeply than you might be used to for the first few millimeters of rotation. But then it all became quite comfortable and the rate of adjustment became quite gradual at typical listening levels (ie. "robust", without being downright loud). As an illustration, a good solid listening level for records and radio is now achieved with the volume control knob at 10 clicks (out of 21), CD might be a click or two lower depending on the production of that particular disc. Brilliant! I'm up and running without having to buy yet another volume pot. Many thanks to all contributors, and esp to Alan for donating the resistors. Imagine how good a fix this would have been if the resistors had been bigger, though!
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    Those aren't minuscule, they are standard 0.4W metal film I'll have you know

    You should see the size of surface mount resistors fitted in modern kit, well actually you would find it difficult to see them

    http://www.resistorguide.com/resisto...-and-packages/

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    Quote Originally Posted by Firebottle View Post
    Those aren't minuscule, they are standard 0.4W metal film I'll have you know

    http://www.resistorguide.com/resisto...-and-packages/
    Was only acting silly, Alan. They sound damn' fine, whatever they are. Cheers. Gary.

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