Hi,
Thanks for your comments its always a difficult decision, for obvious reasons, to make about the choice of the purchase of a kit (or not)!
A ready-built component can be auditioned at a Hi-Fi dealer, or even sometimes at home, but that doesn't stop us making daft purchase decisions - even I have purchased a CD player in the past!
It would be helpful to have a few more details about the phono amp, I do know that it uses op-amps rather than discrete components but I do not know how its equalisations works, is it passive, if not does it use shunt or series feedback?
Can you give more details on what you did please? Did you build a full preamp, what psu did you buy, if you built a full preamp what volume control and switches did you use - you know the kinda stuff.
I also saw the Roksan review, I think it was in HiFi+ (a good magazine) or HiFi News (sadly now a rubbish magazine). Your right it came out of the review very well and so your comments are interesting, Thanks.