Well after spending several weeks looking at designs and sourcing components, I've finally started the assembly process on my DIY phono stage. I've based the design around the octal variation of the Hagerman Tech 'Cornet' phono stage, my thanks to Penance for pointing me in the direction of this design. However I've gone for the complete homebrew approach of building on stripboard rather than a PCB, mostly to keep my overall costs down and for the fact that I can assemble the circuit in a smaller footprint to accomodate my case design. At this stage I've double checked the physical layout of all the components, drilled mounting holes for the insulated spacers and assembled the circuit for the left channel. [IMG]http://www.douglas.murray.dsl.pipex.com/DIY/Left-Channel-Close-Up.jpg[/IMG] To Do: Lots of things not least...... Assemble the right channel. Assemble the circuit for the power supply. Tidy up soldering, trim resistor/capacitor legs and break tracks. Finalise and assemble case. Put it all together.