laaudionut's System

by laaudionut on

Description

Needing to snap some pics for insurance purposes, I thought I would post my system in its temporary surroundings. A major home renovation has the family living in temporary digs and my listening room has seen a bit of a compromise. Say what you will about the positioning of my speakers, subs, and even how my gear is housed on my garage-made media cabinet...this is what I have to work with for the time being. The sound diffusers are also garage made. Despite it all, the sound is still unbelievably sublime!
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Room Details

Dimensions: -18’ × 14’  
Ceiling: 9’

Components Toggle details

    • LUMIN T2
    Streamer/DAC
    • TAD Compact Evolution 1
    • JL Audio F112 V2(2)
    • Coda Model 16
    • WoodSong Audio Garrard 301
    Completely rebuilt/restored by Chris featuring a mahogany plinth, Ortofon 12" arm, Ortofon SPU MC Cart, 60hz(rare) strobed platter with strobe light
    • Manley Steelhead
    • Aric Audio Motherlode Preamp
    The original Motherlode and first Aric built in an attempt to recreate TRL's, The Dude. He succeeded, and then some!
    • Found Music IC's, Power Cable, and Speaker Cable
    • Lumin T2
    Streamer/DAC

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laaudionut

Owner
 Thank you, @dcevans! Yes, I was a skeptic of the use of subs in my system for years...call me a purist. Try as I might, I could not quite get the low end and punch that I wanted in a pair of full range towers, at least not in my listening room...and I tried quite a few of varying sizes and price ranges. 
The Aric Audio Motherlode and Coda pairing work well for me and has significantly tamed the search for the,"audio dragon". 

laaudionut

Great audiophile system!!!  Love the 301, and I bet the TAD/JL combination rivals speakers costing twice as much.  Your praise of Aric/Coda in comparison to Pass is noteworthy, something to remember for future system building.

dcevans

Great audiophile system!!!  Love the 301, and I bet the TAD/JL combination rivals speakers costing twice as much.  Your praise of Aric/Coda in comparison to Pass is noteworthy, something to remember for future system building.

dcevans

Owner
Yes, the Motherlode has adjustable gain control...I believe that all of his preamps/line stages have this feature. It is dead quiet and as dependable as any piece of gear that I have owned. I have heard both the Supratek and the Don Sachs preamp(not in my system). For my ears, I thought the Don Sachs was more musical. Aric's entry level line stages, again in my opinion, outperformed them both. Reach out to him.

laaudionut

Wish I knew about Aric Audio before I bought my Supratek pre, don’t get me wrong I love the sound from the Supratek, but I have had a lot of problems with it, it has very high output gain and using the gain knob makes it loose a channel on the 300B output and the 6SN7 hums in one of the channels!!! 
Can the Motherload gain output be adjusted?

gryphongryph

Owner
Grateful for the kind comments! The Aric Audio/Coda combination represents the pinnacle of my solid state amp/tube preamp pairings. Dead quiet, expressive, and a joy to listen to for hours on end. Previously I had both the Pass Labs XA60.8 and XA160.8 with the Pass XP20 preamp and I was underwhelmed beyond describe. I then worked with Aric to create The Motherlode and the Pass amps sounded much better(the Pass preamps really are the most anemic and unexciting preamps I have heard). Having an older Coda Model 11, I bought the Model 16, sold the Pass and never looked back. 

laaudionut

How do you like the Aric Coda combination? Is it a mechanical quiet pairing ?
Really like your system, if your space works, it works ;-)

gryphongryph

Fantastic system and great looking room and that 301 is to die for. But love it all the TAD's the Manley/Aric/Coda combo thanks for sharing!

jond

Owner
Thank you! The 301, and this one in particular, is special in every aspect...stated with some bias.

laaudionut

Really like your 301.

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