Slbenz (or anyone else): Do you have any experience with the TADAC from Tube Audio Design? Seems like he's got quite a loyal following and a very highly regarded product. I had a few email exchanges with him today and I'm very interested in giving the TADAC a try, but like the Monarchy piece, it's a DAC and preamp in one chassis. But unlike the Monarchy, you apparently can't choose a line out for the tube DAC...in the TADAC, the signal passes through the volume control and on to the L and R analog outs. Paul of TAD said if I wanted to use another preamp and just run the TADAC as an outboard DAC, I'd just keep the volume (on the TADAC) set to one level, run the L and R outputs into the preamp, and then use the preamps volume control from there.

Is there an issue with running the signal through two volume controls? Or do you think this would be fine?