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| Tekton Double Impacts As several A'goners have requested, here is a link to the The Motherlode preamplifier built for Laaudionut:http://aricaudio.com/products.php?product=ML6SL7MMAric | |
| Tekton Double Impacts @sbayne - Thank you! It’s been a really neat test comparing the same tracks back to back on the "Motherlode" and then my own personal unit using 6SN7’s and the True Copper caps. The all film-capacitor power supply using a toroid (instead of iron) ... | |
| Aric Audio Systems Unlimited Preamp Thank you Bill, I really appreciate that! Those Jupiter caps sound gorgeous by the way, as do the Duelunds. It's very satisfying to be able to work with parts of this caliber. Best wishes, Arc | |
| Tekton Double Impacts @sbayne - Thank you! Yes, I've actually been chatting with Bill about some of the differences and similarities between the two designs over on another thread. It appears Paul's design was highly sought after and many different versions were offere... | |
| Aric Audio Systems Unlimited Preamp I'm not sure if you all have or use Facebook at all, but it's the only website I could find to post some quick pics of it. Eventually I'll have it up on my own site, but in the meantime, here's a sneak peak (well not too sneak I suppose) of the Mo... | |
| Aric Audio Systems Unlimited Preamp I'll be able to post more a bit later- perhaps Monday as I had some company arrive for the weekend. Real quick though, is anyone aware of an easy way to post pics on this forum without having to upload them to another site and post a URL?Aric | |
| Aric Audio Systems Unlimited Preamp @grannyring much respect to "The Dude" and thank you for the insight on it’s uniqueness! In terms of similarities the ML has the breaker power switch, an exclusively film capacitor power supply and robust storage + PI filter stages. I’ve also empl... | |
| Aric Audio Systems Unlimited Preamp Initial testing of The Motherlode preamplifier is complete! This unit was designed to fill the niche left by "The Dude" (which was a high end 6SN7 based preamp using all film capacitors and tube regulation in the power supply). This is a "no hold ... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts I have to say, I am truly impressed with the tonal qualities and imaging of the Duelund PIO caps used in the outputs of the Motherlode! I still say that the True Copper Audyns are a hair- and I mean just a "hair" less smooth, but with the same ove... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts Thanks Corelli that's much appreciated! | |
| Aric Audio Systems Unlimited Preamp Thanks guys! I believe being able to optimize the whole system together is like matching the engine to the transmission. I've got a larger set named "Animus" that's in the works now featuring a quad array of midranges flanking a ribbon tweeter. Th... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts Since the 300B amplifier's architecture uses dual 6SN7 stages, and I omitted cathode bypass for the benefit of greater detail, the gain of the amplifier is very close to that of an integrated, however two un-bypassed stages is just shy of being ab... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts I should have some pics up maybe as early as the weekend, depending on what the lady has in store for us when she comes up. And Tom, you also have a tube regulated power supply using those OD3 regs on either side of the transformer cover :-) | |
| Tekton Double Impacts I believe I had the volume up to between noon and 2 using a streaming device as the input before Tom’s amp started soft clipping, which was on 90 db speakers, on the 8 ohm taps. It also depends on the level of the recording. Les Zeppelin needed to... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts Exactly! I tend to want to design with some headroom in mind as there's nothing worse than running out of gain while the amp is just starting to open up. Like a governor on a hot rod.... No bueno! |