The future of preamps

I'm saying a preamp that has much lower output will play lower levels of volume that I like, most source I use are 2.5 volts output to 5 volts output, you said, times that by 5, thats to much volume, I like to turn the volume control to full setting and still have a little head room to the amps power with no distortions or clipping

If the volume control is working properly in the preamp the fact that it is set high or low will not affect the sound other than the volume itself. So you have no worries in that regard. What works in your favor is your amplifiers have relatively low gain, helpful if your digital sources have high output.

@ Atmasphere, Hi, I am really interested in your preamp to audition, I called my friend Ray Munchler, the service manager at Krell today, He said he would research your m-1 and give me his thoughts on useing it with my Krell 700cx, I like your circuit you designed!, no coupling caps, no transformers, Like to hear that, I know Krell is bias to solid state, However, Ray is going to give me his honest opinion on the matter, I believe no one knows Krell like krell does, His concerns is DC!, He believes before looking at your m-1, I may have to activate the coupling caps in my amp to use it, I will not do that, this will indeed degrade my sound performance, formost, you have been very nice to me and patient, Thankyou so much, you are a real gentleman here, you have my respect, I will let you know what Ray believes, happy new year.

@ charles1dad, Hi, I like you as well, you are a gentleman, I am tring to sort all this out and hopefully accomplish a match for my amp, Its sad I have to be concerned with what I do here, being Krell is saying repeativily about tube preamps with my paticular amp.

@ Atmasphere, Hi, Just got my call back from krell, they said, If you have it in writting in your manual or other wise that your preamp will not emit Dc at all, its all good to protect my investment!, He did want to know what kind of volume control you use, He also said, If its the old school pot volume control, it would not matter since you have dither controls for the gain, He said I should be able to ajust to match the amp, he preffered discrete attenuator volume control, meaning, has digital support, they veard off from the usual pot volume control for better out come of sound, what say you?, thanks Ralph.

The volume control in the MP-1 is a custom-built switch with gold contacts and dual wipers to insure contact performance. It has 4 decks so we can control each phase (inverted or non-inverted) as well as both channels.