Point to point wiring.

PCB's are quick and easy. Design a board, have it made for you, pay minimum wage employees to stuff the boards, install them into the chassis with plug in connectors, test it, put it in a shipping box. Sell a $1K mod six months later, changing out a handful of caps and resisitors that should have been used in the first place.

Yeah, PCB's have brought us a long way.

It's a throwback, and like a number of other things in audio (tubes and vinyl) it gets the juices of old audiophiles going. Whether any of it is an improvement is all in the mind. You know what? Chicken tasted a lot better when I was young.

interesting to see some contrasting views on this subject. Being relatively new to the hobby myself, I'd always heard point to point wiring spoken of as if it was some really great thing.

Speaking for myself only, chicken tastes as good today as it did when I was a youngster. I fully comprehend your analogy, but feel that it doesn't fit in this situation.

We've all heard what different cabling can do for a system, (some of us have even the sonic effects of changing out an input wire on an amp). This said, it makes sense that internal direct wiring within the circuit itself would have similar effects. It may be difficult to have a wire trace with as much actual area as a 12 or 14 gauge wire, (which may be the optimum size for the circuit design). We haven't even gotten into different grades of copper used in PCB's as compared to the extremely wide variety of wire available for use.

I believe that there are some great reasons for PCB's, sonics not neccessarily one of them. We all have PCB's in our systems, so I'm not saying that good sound isn't possible with PCB's, just that they present compromises.

To state that point to point is amatuerish, DIY, or throwback is off base and may not be the primary reason for utilizing this build design.

Sorry, I don't know how you can say: "We've all heard what different cabling can do for a system... " On that point count me out. I have yet to hear a cable that actually improves anything except through the power of suggestion. Which may work quite well BTW. I simply prefer buying recordings and listening to them. If I have to sit on the edge of my seat and squint to hear an improvement, I quickly conclude that at my age life is just too short to worry about that. On the other hand, I am thinking of getting my head cryoed. Hope it works out.