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FS: Starving Student II, boutique components

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I liked so much the standard Starving that decided to build one with boutique components. Probably a crazy step but I assure you it sounds decently and clearly better.
Chassis is heavy aluminium, painted and wood film finish on front panel. Feet are conical and can accomodate screws or counterfeet. Volume pot is tad best version, knob is a heavy and thick one. Components SMPS Filter is housed in a caption covered aluminium box, No switch on/off, direct plug to amps. Eichmann orca's, Duelund wire where matter, 2x Sfernice as resistor. The circuit is updside down to facilitate setting change, 2x char croft and 2x Vishay VAR, 2x arch, Lid cover not realized, will include a plastic raw, as you see in pictures.
What to ask...if you look at the crude costs it will never be sold. Let me try to ask 400 our but will accept any fair offer that come first. Don't feel bad to drop my request price. I need to move on, as I actually use a top doc with preamp included.
Will ship in Europe for sure, other countries ask. PayPal is fine of course.
It plays extremely musical. I preferred it to B1 Nukorg and ACA pre, but of course this is a subjective opinion. in stock form when I built the basic one it was inferior to the quoted preamps. So components here seemed to work.
Thanxs
 

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Reduced to 170 included shipping in Europe. If no interest for the preamp ,you can Savage the precious resistors, the eichmann rca and the TKD volume potentiometer or the chassis for instance. Or even the filter
 
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