I'll second the consider skipping the pre-amp suggestion.
For one reason or another my pre-amp needed some TLC. While it was at the "spa" I borrowed a friends Canary Island Audio VPC.1 volume control.
The pre-amp has since been sold and I bought the VPC.1.
The only down is no remote, but in my house it's only three or four paces to the unit and I'm not to the point of total laziness... yet.
For one reason or another my pre-amp needed some TLC. While it was at the "spa" I borrowed a friends Canary Island Audio VPC.1 volume control.
The pre-amp has since been sold and I bought the VPC.1.
The only down is no remote, but in my house it's only three or four paces to the unit and I'm not to the point of total laziness... yet.