Good thing Frogman your gonna burn yourself.
I once gutted a perfectly good Conrad Johnson preamp. Mounted the main board in a new chassis, the power supply in another chassis, eliminated all the switches except the selector switch and volume control,
and wired the whole thing with silver wire I got from Mark Levinson using the best switch, pot and RCA jacks I could find at the time. I was using Acoustats that had their own high voltage power amps. I suppose it sounded better for a while. But, is was not long before it was bested by a Threshold preamp. Then, the speakers were bested by a new model but the bass still sucked so I started up with sub woofers and on and on and on.
I once gutted a perfectly good Conrad Johnson preamp. Mounted the main board in a new chassis, the power supply in another chassis, eliminated all the switches except the selector switch and volume control,
and wired the whole thing with silver wire I got from Mark Levinson using the best switch, pot and RCA jacks I could find at the time. I was using Acoustats that had their own high voltage power amps. I suppose it sounded better for a while. But, is was not long before it was bested by a Threshold preamp. Then, the speakers were bested by a new model but the bass still sucked so I started up with sub woofers and on and on and on.