Who wants a set of tone controls on preamps?

Having switched from a tone control (albeit defeatable and completely bipassable) preamp to one without them, I can say don't miss the tone controls at all. In fact I WILL say it. There, I said it. I control the bass a little bit by turning the level up and down on a REL sub, but otherwise welcome the higher resolution of the better preamp.

If we can put a man on the moon, there can be tone controls on gear without ill effect. Viva la McIntosh.

As long as they are truly bypassed out of the circuit, I'd still use them. If a recording is lean in the bass or treble region, it usually doesn't matter that much to me, as a lot of those still sound great. But sometimes I do get a recording that's bass heavy. With something like that, I need to keep the volume down too low. If I had the tone controls, I'd be able to listen with the volume the same as the good recordings. If recordings were the same (and I'm talking modern recordings too), I wouldn't think about it anymore.