I am pondering whether to just bite the bullet and purchase a good transformer just for future reference. I feel that the trans is the most important piece and after that it's a crapshoot. Resistors in an amp don't seem to change the sound much and caps, well I am not buying copper lead jupitor beeswax for 126$ apiece; so that leaves ICMW or some other reasonable alternative. The biggest decsision I see is the chassis. And good connectors.