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passive pre feeding foreplay 2???

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I picked up a nice 2nd hand fp2 recently and really like the sound. It is fully loaded and even has hovland caps. I have an expensive Levinson ss pre that has nothing on the fp imo.
The thing is that I really hate the ergonomics of it. The Dual mono stepped attenuators mostly.
Which brings me to my question.
I have a nice Monolithic sound passive pre lying around and I was wondering why I could not simply feed its output into one of the FPs input and set and forget the gain on the foreplay.
I understand that there are many reasons why this is not ideal, but is there any reason that would be a show stopper? I suppose I should also note that the Monolithic has a buffer itself (it needs ac) in order to drive long cables and match impedance.
If this is kosher, and II end up liking the sound, the next question would be what would have to be done to the foreplay to bypass the input selector and volume pots.
Thanks
-Rob

Edits: 10/13/07

Follow Ups:

RE: passive pre feeding foreplay 2??? - Paul Joppa 18:34:57 10/14/07 (1)
- RE: passive pre feeding foreplay 2??? - robber 12:22:32 10/15/07 (0)
Can always put a stero volume pot in it. - Paully 08:20:55 10/14/07 (0)
I don't know anything about your passive pre - JC 20:09:36 10/13/07 (2)
- RE: I don't know anything about your passive pre - robber 20:18:02 10/13/07 (1)
  - OK, they don't really spec an output impedance, - JC 21:07:54 10/13/07 (0)

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