I've been at it again, putting soldering iron to components, and have built myself a valve phono preamp for MM input, with line level output.
My vinyl source is mediocre to say the least but it certainly sounds as good if not better than my discrete transistor phono preamp.

Now what I would like is to some feedback to its real performance.
It would be good if those of you with excellent vinyl sources could try it, better still to compare it with other preamps; is anyone interested?

I am willing to ship it to the first candidate if you are willing to ship to the next.
It weighs in at 1.55Kg

Alan