Layout mostly done, a day on the cnc machine tomorrow.
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Chop-chop, want to have a 
on Thurs.
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Kudos that you have embraced recycling and are using old apple 30 pin cables 
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Umm, for the uninitiated / stupid what is it please?
Headphone amp.
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Looking 
Tidy!
Very Naim.
Very nice job. You’ve done it again!!
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How do you rate it as a preamp?
It sounded great in @Mrs_Maureen_OPinion’s system. Better than expected tbh.
It will be interesting to see how the BA2018 compares.
Have you built it yet?
The PCB is done but not tested so magic smoke a possibility!
The SMD bits were a fiddle.
Setting-aside the secondary fact that it’s not the presentation I was looking for, it was impressive.
It definitely benefitted from warm-up/run-in - sounded much better towards the end of the evening with a few hours on it.
Neutral (not a euphemism for bright or sterile), transparent, and without an obvious signature of its own.
The only notable effect was on a couple of tracks that I played, where the temporal effect was contradictory - one sounded slower than through the various pres I’ve used recently, while the other sounded pacier. Usually it tended towards vivacity, but not intrusively-so.
If you’d bought it new and paid~£2K you would feel you’d got good value-for-money.