Ken, another question for you about the 308 you are using... do you go through the line-amp directly out to amp? or did you unplug the arm outs from the board and run those to an equalizer? (And if so, have you tried the line amp and phono stages inside? Any thoughts??
My original question about the arm was asked because while it was optimized for the 103, it would be easy to imagine wanting to try a different long arm.
You mentioned in another thread that you didn't appreciate the MDF and top plate. Are you going to try and re-plinth the whole thing?
And by the way, if you want a pair of monitor headphones for the headphone monitor plug-ins on the left, they are the Elega DR-631C and they are still making them (be sure to get the 631C (not another letter) 10k ohm type with the #110 jacks - the 110-end type jacks cost about 5% more than the regular type but they are the ones for broadcast use). If interested, let me know and I can help navigate in Japanese for you.