Finis: Yes it is complete and in it's hand made plastic case (lel). All wiring is wirewarp wire. Here three lithiums power the preamp. Of course any high performance 9V battery, even rechargables could be used. I like lithiums.
At the last minute I added a 0.01uf poly to the power section right at the input to the BoZoaC engine (I could hear Gio whispering "de-couple"). Just one 0.01uf poly to ensure no HF gets into the PS. I'm pleased with the build and assembly.
I am listening to it now from my new Oppo BDP-83SE. It sounds better than my BoZSE capless-or is it. Though this preamp requires 10 or so hours of use to relax the big 10uf 100V ploypropelene output caps and settle the 2 X 1000uf 35V low ESR electros the sound is very immediate, bass seems to be at full weight (I don't believe it) and in all a very natural balance with, comparitively, mids slightly forward.
I thought BoZSE had added additional bass weight due to its 30,000uf of storage caps. But I am sensing this minimalist BoZ has the same bass performance with a fraction of the storage caps? Is it the 27V battery PS?? And I may have better mids??!!??
I cannot play LPs due to the fact I cannot attenuate my phono preamp enough. I may add a pot or an attenuator switch to this BoZ build. So far I'm very pleased. Very impressed. It sounds very quick!
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