MM/MI Phono Stages

I just finished building a K&K Audio Trio kit for a customer of Kevin's and got to listen to it for a couple of nights in my system. I was very impressed. This unit, the kit which costs $1395 in MM, pushed all the right buttons for me. Sparkling highs, fleshed out midrange, and solid bass. Excellent depth and width to the sound stage. Had a nice way of enticing one into the music it was playing. When I was listening I was engaged and not critical, not wishing I had my full bore K&K beta Venice in the system. In fact, the Trio  reminded a lot of the Venice, call it a Venice lite. And that is saying a lot. I have a SS Sussurro on my TT (0.4mV output) and the noise was not objectionable running into the MM input. So noise performance with a normal high output SS MI cart. should be fine.  There are socket pins on the main board so different loading resistors can be used. These pins could also be used to plug in different caps if one replaced the 1M soldered resistors with 47K input resistors.

I like the idea of building a Kit. Value wise and DIY is something I have always wanted to try. Could a beginner with reading and real effort pull this off? 

Absolutely! Kevin designed this as a easy kit. The most important thing is to have good soldering technique. The use of a temp. controlled solder station and good quality solder like Cardas quad eutectic or Wonder Solder makes good results easier. Also, take your time and read and understand the directions before you start.

Yogiboy, I'm thinking your rec was while not without merit was given more tongue in cheek please don't say it isn't so.