laaudionut
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| Tekton Double Impacts Update on Aric Audio's, The Motherlode.The long awaited delivery took place yesterday afternoon. Taking into consideration that the big Dueland capacitors can take a few hundred hours to break in, and I am using freshly unboxed NOS tubes from Andy... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts @david_ten-Yes, I was using the Oppo to feed the XP-20. Prior to the Oppo, I had an old(er) Copland 288 CD/SACD transport. | |
| Tekton Double Impacts @sbayne-Thanks! However, as I have mentioned, Bill's(grannyring) guidance, and Aric's willingness and talents to pull this off, take centerstage. I cannot begin to express my excitement about seeing and hearing it in person!On an unrelated note, ... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts Agreed...stated with some bias, obviously. | |
| Tekton Double Impacts Bill,Difficult to top, The Dude, in terms of audio gear monikers! | |
| Tekton Double Impacts @grannyring, Bill, yes, tube regulated power supply. And thank you again for all of your input on both The Dude and more importantly, what specific requirements I brought to Aric in what I would prefer to incorporate his, Dude Killer, as we origin... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts charles1dad's,Agreed, and so Aric made the gain adjustable so that I have more play in volume settings. | |
| Tekton Double Impacts charles1dad's-When Aric and I were making all the considerations given what is was going to be paired with, this was his written quote, " I checked Pass XA60.8 specs, and we need 26 Db gain (so 6SN7 at 20 db is too weak), and then 50kohms single ... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts @david_ten, it was certainly my pleasure to share the experience of the past few months.Unfortunately, the day prior to my post yesterday I had written an even more lengthy and detailed write up, replete with all those audio superlatives, and the ... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts On the heels of the two most recent posts to this now legendary thread.The last time I contributed to this post I was a couple of days away from delivery of my DI's. At that time my set consisted of a pair of MCIntosh MC 601', a Mac C2300 preamp a... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts Eric states that the DI's will arrive on Friday. My initial findings will be written sometime after the weekend.Thanks again! | |
| Tekton Double Impacts I am appreciative of everyone's comments to date, in particular your carefully chosen words in regards to my(current) Mac set up. The order is placed for the DI's and if I am as thrilled with their performance as I am hoping, you will soon notice ... |