Just a small update to this thread... I've been enjoying the Goldpoint for some time now, and regularly swap between it and the Croft. Both have their respective sonic attributes, with the advantage of the Goldpoint being it not wasting the life of expensive NOS valves or using any electricity!

However, being a hard-wired, point-to-point kind of guy, it's bugged me for a while that the Goldpoint was fitted with a PCB (albeit a good one), so I asked Duncan to remove that and hard-wire the circuit using HGC 99.999% silver solid-core wire, and also fit some WBT 0210Cu Nextgen RCA sockets onto the critical inputs and outputs. These were chosen for their complete lack of metal parts, other than in the signal contact points, which are constructed of solid high-quality copper.

I've also moved from using 15K to 12K series resistors, in order to achieve more volume on the early steps of the switches. The result has turned out rather good:










Z-Foil resistors clearly seen above, soldered directly to the outputs.

Not had a chance to listen yet and compare the 'before & after', but will do later!

Marco.