Looking for an Oddball Dual Gang Vol Pot

[bob p]

I'm trying to find a very high quality volume pot to repair a vintage piece of stereo gear:

20k, Audio taper, dual element, 6mm shaft.

The original is a PCB mount pot, but I can work around that as long as the replacement isn't too big.

Quality is the most important criterion, as this pot needs to go into the volume position on a HiFi preamp. The original part was an Alps 20kaX2. Unfortunately, Alps doesn't make pots with 6mm shafts any more, and I can't fin the NOS part.

Has anybody got a good lead?

[bob p]

I'm looking for a top quality part, not a chinese counterfeit. Just for reference:

Real NOS Alps 20kax2:




Chinese Fake:

[Enzo]

This is where paper catalogs shine. Get out the Mouser, Allied, Digikey, and whoever else's phonebook you have, and start leafing through the pots page by page. You will see what they HAVE rather than see what results from search parameters you think up.

You are looking at dual section pots, but don't dismiss single wafer pots with dual resistance elements - the 5 and 6 leg pots we see here and there. Mouser sells these for example:
http://www.bourns.com/data/global/pdfs/pdb18.pdf

Is the pot a gain control in the feedback loop of op amps, or is it a plain old vanilla voltage divider volume control? In the latter case, you might find some other value that will work fine but be easier to find. 50k or something.