"Serge Auckland" wrote


I would have thought that as soon as the word "digital" is mentioned many
valve amp owners will run a mile.....


Nah - don't take too much notice of my responses to Arny's valve/vinyl
attacks!! ;-)

Although I can't ever see myself sitting down to a CD of an evening (wot a
peculiar notion???), I often have them on during the day - not to mention
DAB radio and MP3s when the occasion deems suitable!!

In a few minutes I'm orf down the road and will be playing a CDRW rip of an
LP (wot else?) on my newly-fitted 'Chav Blue' car CD player!! (The first one
I've ever had - looks like crap and sounds brilliant!! :-)

See it in the box he

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/thompsontwins.JPG

Heejus, innit? :-)



There are a number of passive volume controllers available albeit at
ludicrous prices for what is basically a good quality pot in a tin box;


Been there, done that:

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/passives/passives.htm

(Ended up ripping the pot out to replace the duff one in one of my Chinese
300B SETs and haven't got round to replacing yet!!)


and not forgetting the multi-tapped transformer controller which will have
all the benefits and cons of a digital controller, but again at vastly
increased cost and price.


Not going there, not going to do that.....