DIY passive control center part 1 - tom1356 - Tweakers' Asylum

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DIY passive control center part 1

I just started this DIY control center (passive pre). I used the radio shack autoformer volume control ($30.00) and removed the autoformers from the pc board. I bought a vintage decade resistor on ebay ($30.00 with shipping). I took the switches out, removed the resistors, hooked them to the autoformers and now I easily have the best volume control I have ever heard in 17 years of working in audio (I have not heard the transformer volume controls yet). This thing is better than amazing. It has no business being this good. I listen to music very late at night so I took the first two extra contacts and added resistors to give me very low volume levels. I will be using the other two switches from the decade resistor to independently source select.
By the way, it is connected to a Sony SCD-CE775 SACD player and the ASL wave 8 mono amps. For a total of right under $500. Just add speakers.
Try it and you will just shake your head.

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Topic - DIY passive control center part 1 - tom1356 09:42:01 05/27/02 (9)

Re: DIY passive control center part 1 - Adam Reed 16:36:17 05/28/02 (1)

Re: DIY passive control center part 1 - tom1356 16:57:37 05/28/02 (0)

what's the rs part number? - RandyTsuch 15:46:58 05/28/02 (2)

Re: what's the rs part number? - tom1356 16:53:30 05/28/02 (1)

Thanks. (nt) - RandyTsuch 17:26:21 05/28/02 (0)

Re: DIY passive control center part 1 - PeterS 04:04:49 05/28/02 (1)

Re: DIY passive control center part 1 - tom1356 09:21:08 05/28/02 (0)

thank you! thank you! thank you! ive been trying to get people to - snkby 21:19:28 05/27/02 (1)

Re: thank you! thank you! thank you! ive been trying to get people to - tom1356 09:29:25 05/28/02 (0)

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