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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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protoss71
37 posts
 
Would be great if more speaker manufacturers would break in a few hours like zu audio does. My Woo Audio headphone amp needed 500(!) hours to properly break in. Darn Blackgate capacitors! Putting the Encores through rapid break in. I live in a single family home, no neighbors to complain. Able to crank them up and shut the door. Using electronica to loosen up those woofers. 
protoss71
37 posts
 
Liking the encores so far. I did read that the newer encores no longer have the front mid bass ports in earlier posts. Mine came with the ports, but with foam plugs in each of them. I found that strange. Why have the ports if you are going to plug them? Maybe a pair that never got delivered, then Eric found ports do not work as was planned, then just plugged the ports rather than scrap the speaker? 
protoss71
37 posts
 
What’s is the deal with no owners manual? I don’t know how to use the jacks to add resistors to alter the sound. No paper manual is no prob, but why not email
me a digital manual? 
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jcarcopo OP
504 posts
 
Welcome to Tekton @protoss71. I was simply told to disregard these things.   I will say, they sound awesome though. 
sid-hoff-frenchman
53 posts
 
@protoss71 My understanding is that they had a few of the front ported Encore frames already built and I imagine they wanted to use them, but still offer the new non front-ported sound, hence the foam plugs. If they are removable that gives you some options to at least play with porting and unporting them to see which you prefer. 
Regarding the upper quad resistor posts, I asked Eric about them. He said if you use some resistors you basically can turn down the tweeter. He said with such expensive speakers if people wanted a tweak, installing those resistors allowed him to offer some tweaks from a distance. If you feel it is too bright and want to turn down the tweeter, you would need to reach out to them to send you some resistors. I haven’t heard of anyone yet using them. But you never know, you might have a super bright amp or room or something.

Out of general curiosity though, I wonder why the Encores have four resistor posts each, while it looks like the Ulfberhts only have two. 


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