The Rapco V-Cable has this very simple Volume knob at the end where it it jacks into the guitar, and now a person can have an on-board volume control for K&K's, or any similar design pups. This may be old hat to some of you, but I was glad to discover it and have ordered one.

http://www.rapcohorizon.com/p-345-v-cab … cable.aspx

I still can't believe that no pre-amp is needed.  It's so small and neat, no one has a clue it's even electrified unless they pay attention to your endpin/plug - or of course you actually plug it in!  LOL!  All things considered, I think the price is a great point on these.  It is too bad that our two countries - such neighbors - have a money system that is so off from one another.  I guess it all has to do with what our governments choose to spend their money on, and how much debt they go into.  I don't quite understand it myself.

Thanks for letting me know about the K&K Mini pickup system. As it turns out, GFS was out-of-stock with the pre-amp I was considering, so I began looking around. I got to hear a friend's Seagull guitar with K&K's in it, and was very impressed. So I bought it an installed it in my Larrivee, and it's excellent. Very natural, full sound ... unlike any other transducer system I've ever heard. The magic is in having three transducers, and the pure simplicity is genius.

The only complaint is that the system is $165 CDN, due to exchange rates and so on. I'd like to see the whole Stock Exchange, Commodities Exchange, and Money Market Exchange systems dismantled. It's a false economy that enables the wealthy to abuse the rest of us ... but that's a pointless rant.

So many thanks for the introduction / recommendation!

Wise considerations about feedback and ambient sounds. The folks at GF claim that the rubber stalk on the internal mic helps to reduce feedback and handling noise, but we'll see. With Piezo's and transducers, I haven't really heard one I like the sound of. They just sound thin / shrill / tinny to my ears. I'm hoping that being able to blend the mic and the pickup will give me something more natural sounding in between. I need to hold off on ordering right now, as the CDN$ is at about 0.80 USD right now. Only the lads at the upper echelons in the financial industry really know why.

If that is a problem with the GFS, you would simply reach inside and unplug the mic, and perhaps install the piezo as another option.
As Amy stated "It's gotta sound good to you!"

I was looking at some of the sound hole magnetic pickups to start with, but I didn't like the "electric" sound that they give off.  The K&K truly does just amplify the natural tone of the acoustic.  I'll hop off the soapbox now, because to each his own.  Maybe you want a different sound than I did.    Pickups can be a lot like guitars in that respect.  It's gotta sound good to you!    Good luck!

1) Preamp w/ blender system (http://www.guitarfetish.com/GFS-EAP-510 … _6417.html)

2) Electret Microphone for in the body (http://www.guitarfetish.com/GFS-35mm-ja … _6421.html)

3) Neodymium soundhole pickup (http://www.guitarfetish.com/GFS-Soundho … _6422.html)

Has anyone installed a system anything like this, and what has been your experience? From what I've heard (here & elsewhere) the GFS gear is decent quality and decently priced. This whole setup -  with an endpin jack - comes in at well under $100.