Dual volume control - it should be standard

I can certainly understand the appeal from an engineering point (no stereo pot tracks perfectly throughout its range unless it's a stepped attenuator w/ individual resistors carefully matched), but I have too much OCD to keep leaving the sweet spot chair to walk up to the preamp and tweak the dials hoping the soundstage and centerfill are fine once I return...I'd never get any listening done!

However, it appears that people who are not too lazy and have good hearing say yes in this case.

I'm also too lazy to have my ear trumpet cryo'ed.

There's more to enjoying reproduced music than getting the best possible sound. If you end up missing whole sections of songs because you are jumping up and down to adjust volume and balance, it will be very difficult to enjoy the experience. I find that I often reduce the volume as I listen to music, not sure why, if my tubes are warming up and it is actually getting louder, or (I suspect the real case)I am relaxing into the music and can focus on it more as time goes on. I also find some discs have tracks recorded at different volumes, and like to adjust accordingly, which is so much more enjoyable with a remote. My analog rig does not have a remote, and I find myself listening at volumes that are not ideal, because I don't want to interupt the music by running up and adjusting the volume. Remote control is a real advance in music enjoyment, as important as any advance in sound reproduction. "Lazy" for not wanting to interrupt the performance? Words of someone who really doesn't get it.

Before owning a Bent Autoformer preamp, I never cared much for adjusting volume independently for each channel. However, I quickly became aware how useful it was to have that capability. It was possible from the remote control as well! Very cool.