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    the safety precautions around high voltages.

Schematic hunt: RIAA Phono Preamp

That question has been asked so many times... A quick search here will yield too many hits to make sense of.

Exactly. Seems like sticky fodder.

I see RJM has a few projects that have quite a following, and this one has been around for nearly 20 years with a lot of people having successfully built it. Several RJM projects (the ones marked "active") seem to have BOMs. Is anyone aware of a BOM for this?
 
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Well... It took me long enough, but I finally finished it up last night! Obviously lots going on in the interim, but I got there.

Here's the whole thing very nearly complete (I think all I did after this was twist the transformer primaries and secondary grounds).
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Closeup of the amplifier section itself.

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Walnut sides are french polished with garnet shellac. I made them with my two year old daughter; no power tools. Chassis is inset into the scales by about a third to half their depth.
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Glowshot.
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Sounds fantastic! It's replacing a $14 Pyle preamp from Amazon. It got the job done, but obviously lots of room for improvement. Next step is a matching line amp and speakers!