Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions


I am the very happy owner of the first pair of New Tekton Design Encores and I thought I would create this thread to answer any questions anyone might have regarding the Encore speakers, room considerations, and associated equipment. If you’ve order your pair already, please chime in. I really want to hear what other people’s experience are with these unbelievable speakers.

I drive my Encores with both an Art Audio Diavolo SET 300b Tube Amplifier with 8wpc and I switch in my 700w Nord One-Up SE Monoblocks for non-critical listening and some big pieces of music that benefit from the extra power.



  • Made under U.S. Patent 9247339 with multiple new patents pending
  • Proprietary loudspeaker design
  • Ultra-linear frequency response with ±.5dB deviation from 70Hz-20kHz
  • One single crossover element placed within the tweeter path
  • Ultra-linear, entirely time-invariant minimum-phase mid-range section
  • Proprietary patent pending 15 dome radiating hybrid MTM high frequency array
  • Two 6.5" mid-bass patented ’overtone & harmonic’ transducers
  • Dual 11" low-frequency transducers
  • ​96dB 2.83V@1m sensitivity
  • 4 Ohm design for optimum performance
  • 20Hz-30kHz frequency response​
  • Dimensions Width 13.25" x Depth 15.25" x Height 62"
  • 800 Watt power handling
  • Weight 175 lbs​
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Klh007, thanks for the info.  Great to see quality drivers are used.  It all helps in justifying the jump from the Moabs to the Encores.  
I just ordered a pair of the Encores.  I've owned a pair of the Tekton Seas Pendragons since 2013 and love them but was getting the upgrade bug so I called Eric to ask about the Encores and Moabs.  Eric thought if I liked the full sound of the Seas Pendragons, the Encores would be a better fit than the Moabs for me.
I'm currently using a Yamaha home theater receiver for the Seas Pendragons because many of the audio sources I am amplifying are HDMI audio.  I may want to use the Yamaha as a preamp and feed into a two channel power amplifier.  Any suggestons for a stereo power amplifier that would be a good fit for the Encores?  I wouldn't want to spend more than $2K for a power amp.
@jsoku Congratulations on going with the new Encores! I love mine very much.  They are my forever speaker.

Regarding powering them I'm probably not going to be much help.  I run source direct from my Matrix Audio Sabre X Pro MQA DAC and power mine currently with a pair of 15wpc Allnic A6000 Quad Parallel 300bxls SET Tube Monoblocks.  The Encores are relatively high sensitivity at 96db albeit at a 4ohm load, but as you can see in my case, it take very little power to drive them to 94db peaks in my 20x13x8 room from my listening position 10ft away. 
I'm very biased towards to amps for music and SET topology tube amps in particular because of their 3D holographic and palpable portrayal of vocal and string/wind instruments as well as incredible sound staging.
  You can get pretty close with solid-state using a Pass Labs XA25 I'm told, but that over $5k.   

Eric pairs his speakers with Parasound amplifiers at the shows and they always get high marks for the pairing, but again they are outside your budget, unless you possibly find them used.
 
You could go with an amp that utilizes NCORE Class D modules offered by numerous manufacturers.  Some have better sounding input buffer boards, like Nord or Apollo Audio which even allow you to choose the overall tone you want by choosing the opamp chip to your liking.  Best bang for your buck might be a no frills ncore design.  If you Google ncore amplifiers you will get dozens of results. I know theirs a brand that's like $700, but their name eludes me at the moment. 
I prefer NCore Class D to most Class A/B amplifiers.  They tend to be very powerful and very low in distortion, but also are fairly smooth sounding. They do transients well too. 

Again, for music though. Imho, nothing beats a good SET Tube Amplifier or a Class A solid-state amp like the pass labs XA25.

Are you doing full surround sound?  If not, maybe ditch the receiver and look at the 2 channel anthem integrated with room correction. My friend loves his a lot.  Also, that receiver is your weak link. The dacs in most midfi receivers are quite awful sounding and have poor measurements to back that up.  It used to not be that way, but they really have gone down hill over the years. 

Hope this helps you some. Glwys