Passive & Tubed pre-amps to power amp at same time?

If you use your CD player with your preamp, why not try lowering the volume on the CD payer. That should give you more range when using the preamps volume control.

Zd...no volume control on the CDP. It's 2.6 Vms out unbalanced and 4.6 Vms balanced. That's why I had been thinking to skip the tubed pre-amp and go passive with the Schiit SYS.

If I get this right with what you want to do.

What I would do is put all your sources into the inputs of the active preamp so you can switch between them, then come out of the tape output of the active preamp into input of the passive preamp and then out of the output of it to the poweramp/s input.

Basically this way your using the active preamp as a source selector.

Cheers George

Thanks for the idea George. What I am trying to do is introduce volume control
for the CDP without any addition boost in gain while leaving other sources
unaffected that run through the tubed pre-amp. Your idea does seems like
something to explore. No tape out...but sub out. However, I am going with Al's
suggestion of attenuators. Ordered a couple of Harrison Labs -12dB RCA plugs
from Parts Express. Much less expensive than those from Rothwell and Parts
Express allows returns if they don't work out. Others on A'gon do report
satisfactory results using these. Thanks again to all for the suggestions.

Very bad idea splitters are bad quality.