Here you go Minnesotafats…
PaulCEO PS Audio
Yup. I understand. There’s always a nice knob feel that is hard to beat. What we figured was most people are sitting in their listening chair and using the remote. That’s certainly me and unless I am playing vinyl or CDs, I am never standing at the unit.
We labored long and hard over that decision: aesthetics, timeless look, where to put the display IF it had a knob and all that. Consider that only the preamp and DAC would need a volume control. If we put the knob on the far right that would mean the display would be a second circle to the left. Fine. But then, for everything else without a volume control, the display would sit as an orphan to the level (for symmetry). Ok, then change the knob to a knob/switch for those without a volume control…and on and on.
In the end, I opted for practical and simple.