Modular Preamp / Heaphone Amp Chassis ? (move to another section if more appropriate)

[lolo6990]

Creation of the UMS specs for heat sink in addition the 10mm*10mm hole pattern add-on plate on Hifi2000/Modushop chassis is great for flexibility in an amp / power amp.
Yet, having build one amp+preamp into 1 chassis, I am on the path of building more and slowly wishing there would be a standardization on preamp/headphones amp boxes
But instead of UMS specs for transistors placement, there would be UMS specs for:

1. front panel: power switch, led, Alps volume control, source switch : always standards position
   
2. back panel: power inlet, RCA inputs, RCA outputs : always standards...

There is already a nice case from Hifi2000/Modushop for the B1 Kong preamp, just lacking the hole for the headphone jack. The shop was nice to send me the 2D of the front panel so I could adapt to another front panel (4U to put the Korg preamp into a big “power amp” box), so there is the base for a “UMS specs for preamp/headphone amp”

Something that would be “made for ACP+ preamp” & adaptable for other like Noir, Korg, Pete Millet Nutube board and so on.
Reasoning

1. ACP+ doesn’t have a well made chassis like ACA. Having one would make it nicer and could be integrated in style with the current ACA chassis
2. ACP+ has RCA binding post fixed on the PCB board whereas others don t, = if backpanel tolerances OK for ACP+, "free" RCA should be easy to install.
   
3. ACP+ board is the biggest compared to others (from what I gathered) so, if it’s fits inside, everything would.

To do

1. I have not checked yet if an ACP+ board fits a standard chassis given the depth of the board with welded components back and front and standard Galaxy chassis dimensions
2. Also to be done: checking the height of the ACP+ and others to see if 1U is ok or more height is required…
3. Every component of ACP+ being welded on the PCB lead to lots of constraints... to be checked/compared with others boards.

Precise dimensions of the ACP board are needed, they could be reverse-engineer from Nelson article, but would do that only if people would think the idea has merits and there could be a connection with the DIY Audio store and/or Hifi2000/Modushop…Also, I don t have an ACP+ myself, so there could be a few mm of misses…Ok to throw ideas around, not for manufacturing a real product...



So do you think this is something (the overall idea/direction) that could be interesting for some?