That's a great suggestion. Except this will be in 3 boxes when finished and my tonearm cable is one piece, so if I soldered it to the boards I'd have to remove the tonearm to move the boxes round...

I like ruthless minimalism as much as the next man but that may be too hairshirt even for me. I'll settle for a continuous shield from headshell to input points on the board via short lengths of internal coax.

Ring-Ring! Awesome my transformers are here. I can wire up the other channel.