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| Tekton Double Impacts So as a piggy back to earlier posts regarding whether to consider the DI's, or go all out on the SE's...I just popped the top on my newly delivered SE's earlier today. I am about 50 tracks into the audition/break-in and I can state without hesitat... | |
| Aric Audio Systems Unlimited Preamp I just happened to stumble upon this thread and thought I would add some color to it, as I am the extremely proud and excited owner of The Motherlode that has been mentioned to date. I originally discovered Aric and Aric Audio on the Tekton Double... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts @charles1dad , Aric and I have not decided on the tube specific as yet. He mentions that he is working on some projects that push our decision one way or another. As mentioned, this piece is a bit further out for me.@corelli, HBD indeed! This thre... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts Good day all, and with all apologies to grannyring.During the last couple of weeks as I have been thoroughly enjoying the break-in process of Aric Audio's, The Motherlode, I have had many private inquiries about the piece. I have tried to reply to... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts Thanks Bill! As mentioned, you were instrumental in this collaborative process. | |
| 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... |