Hi folks. I've been watching Stephe for a while and find a lot of her YouTube channel fascinating. My midlife crisis has focused on audio and vintage audio in particular. I was really into stereos as a kid and a couple of my older sibs had friends with what would now be considered "Holy Grail" systems. Consequently, my first stereo was my sister Ellen's Marantz 2216. Not bad for a teenager in the early 80s. I started building and restoring speakers about two years ago as we bought a house with a garage workshop and the kids are grown. So far I've completely rebuilt speakers from Klipsch, JBL, ADS, Wharfdale, Cerwin Vega, Electrovoice, etc. And I've built a few kits from CSS. Now I'm trying out amps and turntables.

I can read basic crossover schematics but amps not so much. Naturally, I decided to build the 300B amp project that Stephe has designed. I have almost all the parts and will probably start drilling out the chassis this week or next. This should be pretty exciting given my learning curve but you don't get better at swimming by staying in the shallow end of the pool. I'm sure I'll be asking a lot of questions and blowing up her email for pictures of the assembled amp from below. If anyone else has done this build and wants to send pics or advice, or you just want to point and laugh as I fumble my way through this then please don't hesitate.

On a personal note, my wife and I live in the mountains outside of Asheville, NC. We're originally Ohioans. We have three grown kids, 7 dogs, 3 cats, and an absolute butt load of farm animals. I'm a property appraiser, like fly fishing, classic jazz, France, baking levain, and mornings. I cannot stand Kiss, single-ply toilet paper, Oasis, wheat beer, sweet tea, and pineapple on pizza.

Cheers folks! Hope you are all well.