"** Continuously variable ???? "

Sorry, switchable, narrow and wide. I heard of a tuner with three positions but never had one and don't remember the name or model.

Doing variable control in the analog domain would be an incredible bitch but that's how I want it. Actually it only has to be a couple of stages towards the front, maybe even just one, but still. Maybe Studer Revox would do something like this (maybe they have) but I doubt anyone else. Them engineers there I bet are showoffs. I'm not bitching, just saying. I saw the print of one of their tuners and said "WTF, are you sending the first mission to Mars or what here ?". I'm sure I still have it lurking around a drive here but it would probably be easier to find it online again than to look through all my backup.

Yes I am a nasty SOB who wants someone else to do what I can't. But they get paid for that.