How do you add remote control to a preamp, here's how.

ozzy62, I had a passing thought of hooking up the passive preamp directly to my amp and see what happens. I'm going ahead and do that and I will report back on the results. Hopefully there will be enough gain to satisfy me. I have some doubts though considering it is a CJ solid state amp and their matching preamps have a higher gain to drive it.

Clio09 posted : " I have seen situations where people wanted to use a passive as a remote and the Placette passive remote was one of the best to accomplish this."

I could not agree more.  The Placette uses Vishay resistors with very tight tolerances to control volume and I have found it to be sonically invisible in my system.  A bit pricey but a worthwhile investment in my opinion.  Since the entire signal runs through it, it is not a place to go on the cheap !

I don't think the Schiit Saga passive can be beat for transparency...looks like they ditched the tube with the latest model.

With the relay stepped ladder volume control, you get perfect channel matching and no noise or distortion. It's as transparent as an RCA cable :-)  

The points above are well taken to get a better passive but I wanted to try this route to make sure this will basically work for me and with the excellent recommendations above I'm going to look into a better passive. But I will need at least three inputs and of course a remote.

Another feature of the Schiit Kara is the output impedance is the same in active and passive modes.