J2 with Aleph front end

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yes that sounds about right - although i think you would be best placed keeping the drain resistor load as a fixed value (say 200 ohms or so) and then adjusting the CCS set resistor R11 in your schematic. You 'loose' less gain by adjusting current for a given Vgs vs adjusting the drain resistor and keeping the current constant.

Also the macmillan resistors are neat but maybe for test and development purposes you can just use a low value trimpot between the source of the LTP fets for offset adj purposes (which is what those resistors are meant to achieve)

As regards the choice of the input mosfet, there are other devices you can try nowadays - some alas not easy to find (SJ313) and others still available (IRF9Z24). You'll find that these devices have their own 'sweet spot' (combination of drain resistor and bias current) and so may be better suited for the job of driving the jfet op devices. Only way to find out which is best is (imho) through plenty of experimentation.

Good luck mate!
 
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