Any weekend tweaks?

[kenreau]

If it were a wired system I'd do that in a heartbeat but near as I can tell there's nary a wire in the house! And I may use sandblasting, actually stainless steel media-blasting for finish surface texture only. A chemical or acid bath may prove better for plating removal. Still in the preliminary stage of deciding plating removal options. Biggest fear thus far is the glass plate covering the GUI and how it's attached. If they didn't want it to ever come out or ever be replaced it could be a bear of a task!

Sounds like a great experiment.  I wonder if you could mount the internals on a wood prototype board or even a resin cutting board to give it a listen?  

Another thing to consider, when I get a new component I typically open it up and pull apart all the molex and various connections, fuses, etc and hit everything with Caig Deoxit, Progold and Lloyd Walkers Audio Extreme SST contact enhancer.  Are there any similar connections of the various modules that may benefit?

My WBT binding posts just came in the mail, along with a Furutech AC-1501 IEC PEM and some WA Quantum chips.  I couldn't resist an attempt to use the PEM even if it requires a little soldering.  Given your comments on the piss poor quality of the other RCA connectors, I'm going to look at using a Furutech XLR connector next.  I only use the XLR/AES input from my Aurender S10 so I wouldn't mind optimizing it.

Will be anxiously following your progress posts.

Best of luck
Kenreau