Sean, I wear 13D or 14B so my feet are just average sized compared to those wingtips you had on at a Chicago Audio Society meeting a while back......Most of the Blowtorch owners are well over fifty and with the spring tension of the Shallcos it makes it easier to change inputs to have huge knobs. I could have gone smaller for the pot knobs, but chose to use the 2.25" knobs there as well. For decent shielding aluminum needs to be 3/8" thick and that and 56 heatsinks needed to be attached to the case and my machinist found a cheap way to hog out billets with blind holes so there aren't 56 bolts sticking out of the thing......Now that would have been ugly! I always liked that old Yamaha tuner made in the 70s and chose a similar look for the Blowtorch. At least it is distinctive........
Bob Crump
CTC Builders
