Chrome stripping

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Let's try to keep it in the spirit of fun, innovation, adventure and learning rather than painting a doom & gloom scenario before its finished. No improvement ever came from complacency or not trying something. And holes can be plugged!

I didn't see anyone painting a doom-and-gloom scenario.

However: you are describing some very invasive and irreversible changes, based on your personal opinions about perceived deficiencies in the engineering of the product, on the grounds that you expect them to make significant changes to sound quality.  It seems perfectly reasonable to comment about potential negative side-effects of those changes, and also for that matter to challenge whether these supposed deficiencies are significant or even objectively "real".

Of course I wouldn't presume to discourage you from doing whatever you want to your own equipment, and I'm interested to hear about it, but some balance wouldn't go amiss.  Also I'm keen to hear about how the changes in sound quality will be objectively verified