Nope, I believe that's supposed to be The McCains. That's based purly on the pic of the wife, who's downright scary looking in real life, and the exaggerated aging of John (in line with the Obama cover of the New Yorker).
Agreed. And part of Mikhail's problem is his willingness to modify things after they've been completed. I think more often than not this probably paints him into a corner regarding layout and so on and results in a product that looks hacked together.
I love how some people are saying that you can't have both a neat and functional layout and that the rats nest approach is always in the name of signal path purity.
Considering the moron that built the above amp managed to do both I'd say it's reasonable to expect the same from just about anyone.
Someone asked for an example of good PTP work, so I posted. I should have just used myself as an example rather than muddy the waters with another semi-commercial example (since Pete does produce commercial gear).
Your beating a dead horse comment is somewhat valid, although given how many people he's jerked around I'm not entirely inclined to tell those folks not to vent if they want to (Elephas posting the pictures).
Unfortunately I think that Michael will need a great deal of luck given that those amps are going to be required to make a trans-Pacific journey to him.