Anyone here gander a guess (or someone that's built one) how difficult it is to build (battery version)? I wrote off getting one since I didn't want to wait for the Digikey order and the order from Hagerman but someone is selling complete kits on ebay so I'm thinking I might as well do it. And it might just outperform the NAD PP-2 for less.

As far as stuffing the pcb is concerned it doesn't get much easier. If you've got the basic tools (DMM, iron, etc) it's only a few hours work. But as with just about anything DIY the devil is usually in the casework.

Thanks Nate. Have the DMM, just need to replace my iron.

As for casework, that's always the pain. I think I might do it up in wood.

Mine's been built for something like 4 months now and I still haven't even fired it up. I've got way to many have finished projects these days!