Oh my bad..
you learn something new every day, still dont know why this set has no inrush limiter, but it operates.. Here's a link to a thread started by Wcarrol and a pic shows the inrush limiter there on his ctc-11, where it looks as if either mines missing or that it never had one..
it's 8 posts down on picture 3
http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/sho...ghlight=ctc-11