Remote Volume Control for my Decware amp

This is what this was made for.  Not cheap, but it’s transparent. 

http://www.placetteaudio.com/remote_control.htm

Unfortunately Guy of Placette passed away last year.   Not sure if Placette is still in business. 

@oddiofyl  Yeah that was sad.  If not available new they pop up used occasionally — two sold earlier this year for $450. 

What device was Steve D. referring to?  I don't know of any Deckware components with remote volume control??

@yakatak i believe it was a wired solution, not remote. My bad. I believe it was the gain stage (Zstage) wired to the Triode but placed close to my listening position for control. 

Ahh...Well,...I do have a Z stage, but that would be a bit cumbersome.  There are remote control passive pre's out there, but, like you, I don't want to put any inferior components in the signal path.

When I ran my Decware amp, I too needed a remote volume control.  I used a Schiit Saga 1, which is essentially a switcher with a volume control.  It did nothing to the sound that I could find and they're readily available used for a good price.

Someone should build something like Neil Young’s “whizzer”, which takes a signal and physically turns the knobs on his beloved Fender amps. While Neil’s device works with presets, a device that used a remote ranging from 0-100 should be doable:

https://youtu.be/4bgSAPNGWBY

“Keep on rocking cranking in the sound room.”

See if you can find one of these https://reverb.com/item/35095711-creek-obh-12-passive-preamplifier-with-remote-control-in-excellent-condition. I used one back in the day with my Jolida JA502A and connected my OBH-8 phono stage and Sony XA20ES CD player through it and it was just the ticket. Does not alter your sound in any way and also allows remote source selection and it even has a tape loop. The one in the listing sold for about what they cost new.

Tariffs suck

I use this https://www.thebestamp.com/IR_Remote_Volume_Controls/RV-1003.php

Space Tech labs Model no:   RV-1003

But it wasn't that expensive when I bought mine but it sounds like strait wire with attenuation

Do you know of someone that’s a DYI’r, or yourself. You could buy a motorized volume pot and the kit to go with it and add it to the amp. Not that hard. Partxpress has the pots and kits.

@glennewdick I am only skilled at taking things apart!  Besides, I would never touch this amp as it feels like a work of art.  Not only would Steve Deckert void my warranty, he'd curse my name for violating his principles around minimizing the length and components in the signal path.

You’re not changing anything electrically in the amp itself.  Chances are there is a motorized version of the volume pot that’s in there now. You would just add a little board with an outboard wall wort power supply to run it. This could all be external just the new volume pot is inside the amp replacing the non motorized pot currently inside. Anyway. Good luck on finding something that works for you. Adding anything is going to effect the sound more then a new volume pot would specially if it’s just changing from a motorized version of what’s already there. Granted there is space for the larger motorized pot. 

@paradisecom - I have the Freya Plus and I will try it after my burn in period is over 100 hours.  
@danager Yes they do!  I have lost income on them already.  Thank you for the suggestion.  Very costly.

@sfgak I like that idea.  A mechanical solution.  To make it more difficult, there separate volume controls for the left and right.

@gruvjet I think it would be fun to try to make something like this. There are plenty of stepper motors available that interface with arduino or pi boards, and there are plenty of remotes that interface with those same boards. A mechanical solution would avoid any chance of signal degradation / alteration from any electronic attenuator.

The only challenging issue would be to get some way to clamp the steppers non-destructively to the two volume knobs in a secure way that wasn't ugly as all sin... a 3D printed solution might work (after some prototyping).

Good luck in your quest!

Khozmo Passive Preamp DUALMONO without input selector

https://khozmo.com/product/dualmono-without-input-selector-rca-xlr/

My disc player has a volume control actuated by its remote.