Mezmerize DCB1 Building Thread

Ok soooo…Balanced unit (2 mesmerize boards) which I already acquired. Looking for a little advice on BOM first big one is capacitors. Enlarging reservoir capacitors to between 40KuF (x4-10KuF) to 132KuF possibly off board? I will start there! Oh I have also procured an octet of “super matched” 2sk170(BL) 10.0mV.
 
Is the signal ground referenced to chassis though? This can help with hum in some cases.

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"The ground loop breaker is a 10Ω 5W resistor in parallel with a 0.1µF capacitor rated at least 250VAC"
 
I have way too many ideas! Has anyone amputated the Psu on a Mez? I have looked and found some stuff on VSSC but it doesn’t quite translate well to me and I believe it was a hypnotize as well (late night reading). Curious because I was thinking of integrating UBiB and MEZ for line with DCG-3 and UBiB in a separate enclosure. So integrated DCG-3/Mezmerize in 1 enclosure and separate UBiB power supply in a separate enclosure. As far as the diagram the only reason I even gave it thought was because of who posted it! New DMM showed up today SANWA PC7000! OOOHHHYEAAH!
 
And scratch the diarrhea of the brain!!! I would love to but way to complicated I would have to lower the output of the psu on change over. Maybe later or eventually design something from the ground up with a gain cell (Gilbert cell). Sorry guys no more hypothetical stuff. But my big hang ups are
Reservoir caps and torridals and has anyone run a D.A.C.T. Volume pot?
 
Congrats, Tamra.
When I've listened to my-ex DCB1 build after a long hiatus (it's now at my friends), it sounded so mighty fine.
Nostalgic even. Nice to read it works for you too.

I also remember my hunt for 20k pot in Akihabara with your help.
After browsing their thick paper catalogues, the sellers were telling me 20k could only be custom ordered at double, triple the price.
No other brands were available in 20K either. I came to conclusion, it was an unusual pot value in Japan.

Cheap, but very, very interesting pot to try is DACT resistor stepped type one https://www.ebay.com/itm/192105859271
Superior interchannel matching. If you are interested and willing to experiment I have a spare one and could send it your way.
And I read this just a little late!