Dreaming of a DIY 8W Class A amp designed by Nelson Pass?



I've never built one, or heard them but this kit looks fun as hell, and includes everything you need:

https://diyaudiostore.com/collections/frontpage/products/amp-camp-amp-kit?variant=7072933085218
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I built an F4 from diyaudio and it changed my life.  Just finished the DIY version of the SIT3 and it is beautiful.  I've got two monoblocks that each have an F4 and SIT3 in them... roughly $6400 worth of amplifiers that I built for $2000, and the process teaches you about how electronics work.  Now I can troubleshoot and fix my own equipment. 

Thanks Nelson, it's amazing that you allow people to do this with your intellectual property.
As should be clear from my previous post, my foray into DIY was super successful.  Any bias that people have is definitely misplaced.  I replaced a $4000 300b SET for $1200 and got better sound.  I would have bought an F4, but couldn't find one used.  So happy that I didn't.
And I found the exact same thing with the F4. I had built full mono blocks and was paralleling my inputs and outputs to double the current available to my speakers. Again, the sound improved when I went back down to a single board with it's own power supply. Didn't need the extra power at all. 
@lewinskih01 dual mono is really the way to go if you can. Each channel/board performs so much better when it's got it's own power supply. In my chassis I've got an f4 board on one side and a sissy sit (diy sit3) on the other. Left them both powered and just shorted the input on one side to do evaluation. The SIT amp got so much better when I finally unpowered the F4. Shocking really how much just having an amp pulling unchanging idle current off the shared power supply could impact the sound.