hey david,
can't see the toobs in that rogue 99 preamp, eh? well, that's another reason to get a cary slp98, besides better sonics! ;~) the cary is a bee-yoo-tiful preamp, w/those babies out in the open for all to see. if only it sounded as nice as my melos, which also has hidden-toobs...
re: what *i* look at -a li'l slice of the potomac river, w/the blue-ridge & harpers ferry gap behind it. at nite, the black-boxes which make up my amps, speakers & x-over; also a li'l stone sculpture, carved into man-woman-two children...