Has anyone here had any dealings with Tekton, particularly their subwoofers


As I explore options for replacing equipment I am it seems constantly finding new sources of components to consider. Tekton has appeared on my radar due to another thread here at audiogon. I just wondered if anyone has gone this direction for subwoofers in particular, but I also have questions about their full range speakers and what they are like to deal with. Given that the world of hi-fi has become even more of a smoke and mirrors game than it has been in the past, I am more cautious about who I am willing to throw down money for than I ever have been.

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Tekton is known as much for the cretinous beef it got into with ASR as for its speakers. ASR basically trashed a Tekton speaker and Tekton threatened ASR with legal action. Hilariously Tekton itself brought up evidence during the process that the build quality of that particular speaker was indeed questionable, albeit not for the reasons ASR had written about. 

Threatening legal action on reviewers that don't love a product is not a honorable thing to do. It is also quite ill-advised, because it always ends up in PR disaster (yes, social media is a thing nowadays).

Latest in a parade of businesses that also includes dCS is heretofore obscure Tom Evans, maker of a $30,000 garbage phono preamp no one knew about until YouTuber Mend It Mark published a repair video of the preamp in question. Tom Evans judged the video disparaging and bullied Mend It Mark into taking it down. It worked at first (Mend It Mark took the video down), but look it up and see for yourself how well things are working out for Tom Evans now.

Back to Tekton, regardless of whether their speakers are any good, the question is whether you have much appetite to support bullying, intimidation and anti-competitive behavior with your dollars.

My two cents

I have never seen a pro/con article in science before? Having been raised by a nuclear physicists that lectured my constantly about controls references ,equasions,experiments gone wrong and how to find out why.measurements and variability in experiments.reproduction of data done by different scientists and differing outcomes.they all thought Einstein was nuts.didnt he get kicked out of school.dad was a 2nd gen trained Einstein physicists. He published got huge grants ,taught at universities. The simple solution is to call tekton.i have the equivalent of three ph.d ,I think in contrast bill gates and steve jobs didn't even graduate and look where there at and I'm sure they never had lawyers either.lets get along and enjoy the music .it calms the savage beast.

Looks like the OP vanished.  

Humm.  Wonder what this could be about.  Like we never have been down this road before.