Hi Gus,
I was having similar thoughts. Marik is sending me a re-lammed 2001 trannie to play with, and I was thinking CF as one thing to try it in. (As you
know I have a few cathode follower mics now!). Let me know how you get on with it.
I got your email - many thanks for that. I'll post the pictures when i get a few minutes to squash & upload them. Those surface mount caps lokk like trouble. I actually have a couple of NT3s that I haven't opened up yet - they might benefit from similar treatment. I'm straying off topic again here. The Rode looks to have quite a big transformer in there.