Yes I designed the boards because I wanted to achieve the shortest signal path traces and avoid wiring whenever possible. The input jacks and a balance switch are attached directly to the front end board. Also the regulated power supply board is positioned in such a way that wires to input board are very short. I used HFQ caps for main filter caps because by taking advantage of their small size I could position them almost beside output devices. Mounting TO-3 otput devices is quite tricky too. You cannot mount them flat on a heat sink but on some kind of an angle, or if you want to do it nicely, a custom bar. Most of the manufacturers use screws to conduct the current to the devices (unless you don't use the isolation pads). I didn't want to go that way and soldered pieces of wire to the mosfets.
When you notice the way tose amps stand on the floor, behind the speaker it would be awkward to place the binding posts (yes, Edison Price) in the back. That's why I chose to put the binding posts on a front panel. Although yet, I'd like to see an amp company that does it. Those are big monoblocks that stand on the floor and not on the rack and each foot of quality speaker cables is expensive.
Regarding parts quality, remember it was 1995 and for me Holcos were as high as I could go. Vishay and Caddocks products seemed to be ridiculously expensive. I used nice binding posts though (maybe becase they were in the front?)
Also anybody notice the way the transformer is mounted. However this is not my idea. I've seen the picture of Aleph 0 in a German magazine and I liked the way the transformer was mounted there. You can probably see that the amp takes a lot of influence from early Alephs designs although it can stand on it's own ground as well. I must add that I admire Nelson Pass work immensly and take a lot of inspiration from it.
