I did the right thing after all.

After owning the Moab’s for a few years. I traded them to The Music Room towards a set of Canton Ref 3K speakers. I lost more than 1/2 the money I spent on the Moabs. I also included the Townsend Stands.

My opinion of the Moabs after living with them all this time. They are Big, Black and dominated the room. OK, now that is out of the way.

The sound was good, midrange is very good like Eric says. Tweeters did not sparkle, Bass needed some help. I added a REL Classic 98 that gave me the real bass I was missing. In all honesty, I felt like I was listening to a PA system in a concert hall. I think that is why Live recordings did sound best.

So, now I have the Canton Speakers set up, I will wait to see if I wasted money yet again on speakers. I had to give TMR $5400 plus my Moabs to get them. I need time to make that decision.

What does the mighty internet think?

Well, you have to please you.

I don’t care what anybody else thinks of my gear, it works for me (and sounds great).

I also owned (and still do) a pair of Tektons.

Also like you, I sort of "outgrew them" (I have a pair of Enzo XLs with Be tweeters sitting in storage. Definitely not in the MOAB class, but they worked as advertised and served their purpose...).

I had much the same experience you did, and ended up replacing them with a pair of OB speakers. Not sure I could ever go back to a box speaker, to be honest....

It’s a constant journey, isn’t it?

As long as you're happy, I'd say you did the right thing.

Not many people I know make money in this hobby. It's to be expected to lose $$$ along the way. Enjoy! JM2CW.

OP, thanks for following up. It’s posts like these I find most useful - giving something a couple years then letting people know your thoughts. Those Cantons are big, impressive speakers, and seem to be a pretty good value. I heard them at a show a few years back with all Esoteric equipment. Let us know how it turns out.

What are your tastes in music? Do you have an eclectic taste in music?

If that is true, you may be the type of guy who needs more than one pair of speakers, different types of designs and brands that sound different. Enjoy different sounding things for what they are.This 1 in - 1 out strategy tends to fail and you will be chasing your tail forever, unless you only listen to 10 recordings from 1 genre on repeat.

Some dealer/sales guy for a brand he carries will claim that 1 great pair of speakers ( whatever he carries, trying to sell you) should sound great for anything and everything. Such is never the case. 1 great pair of speakers are never all that F-ing great.

I have a local dealer that had the persona 7f in his main listening room for 2 years and every time I stopped in the components were different and so was the speakers presentation. Having never heard Tekton or Canton I can't offer any advice, that said, The better a speaker's made the higher the ceiling, duh. Many brands match speaker pairs to .5 db of each other also using matching layers of veneer. Speaker manufacturers that reach that level of competence that can afford to invest in equipment to insure product consistency like Canton, Dynaudio, Revel, Kef, B&W, etc often have a very high ceiling being limited by the components and our own ignorance matching speakers to rooms and placement. 

I've bought and sold many highly regarded speakers (2nd hand) dissatisfied that in hindsight I can concede my components were likely the cause because 'budget components and TOTL speakers are a crapshoot. I seriously doubt Tekton has as high a ceiling as Canton or other Major players, but for plug and play systems I expect Tekton is the easiest to get good sound from because they're amplifier friendly and play with plenty of dynamics while our big brand speakers suck our Anthem/hegel/parasound amps (speaking for myself) dry.