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Tekton Design's new THE PERFECT SET equals "goosebumps time"

Just got in house for review for hometheaterreview.com Tekton Design’s new, The Perfect SET, which is close to 100dB efficient and never dips below 8 ohms, which Eric built to be used with SET "flea watt" amplifiers. It is a front ported design using a 12 inch woofer and his patented array of small transducers that function as a midrange driver with a single tweeter in the middle. I set them up in a system with a great 2A3 SET amplifier and found them so superlative I did not stop listening for over five hours! Taking about "goosebump time" the music was so beautiful that
I lost track of time.

These speakers have all the virtues of the other Tekton speakers, speed, utter transparency/micro-details, great soundstaging, and that special "aliveness" that I experience when I listen to my Ulf’s. What really amazed me was what the Perfect SET was delivering on the bottom end frequencies, subterrainian/taut powerful bass, that was shaking the room, all coming from at most 2.5 to 3 watts.

If you love SET amplifiers this speaker is a match made in heaven, and remember this pair just arrived and is not totally burnt in yet.

teajay
nightfall
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teajay,

Earlier in this discussion you said:

" When Mike Kay of Audio Archon came over to get his take on the PS speaker he brought that Rush album and played it at high SPL levels, he thought that the system sounded superlative playing this music."

Was he listening to it with the higher powered Threshold amp, or the low powered SET amp? While I listen to a lot of singer/songwriter music, where voice and guitar reproduction is critical, I also want to throw on a recording by The Who, or Rush and listen at high SPL at times. Do the Perfect SETS deliver on that using SET power? 

Also, you mentioned in the excellent 6 Moons article that you put the PS speakers upstairs in your nearfield setting to review them. Can you give me an idea of how far they were from your listening position, how far apart, and how far from the side and front walls? That information would help me a great deal. 
I would be using them in a 13.5x15x8 room with a SET amp of 16wpc. 

Thank you. 
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d2girls
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what is high spl for you guys?
teajay OP
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Hey nightfall,

Answers to your questions:

1) Mike listened both to a SET 2A3 and Threshold S/350e when he heard the Perfect Set speakers.  Whats' great about them, along with other sonic virtues, they sound superlative with flea watt amps and monster high power/current amps.  I'm driving them right now with a Threshold SA/4e class A two hundred watt/high current over 45 amps and they sound great.  If you are going to play power rock at high dB levels you would want more then 2 to 4 total watts.  However, you might be shocked how well a 2A3 SET can play this type of music through the Perfect Set.

The front of the speaker to where I sit is six feet.  The speakers are four feet off the front wall and at least two feet off the side walls. They are about four and a half feet apart, and there is no back wall behind the sofa.  If you look at my bio on Six Moons you can see a picture of this system.

With 16wpc you won't have any problems, on any music, with volume levels or dynamics. 
newb2
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Can only comment on the entry level lores . Im not in the states so studied them and built them . Was able to source the drivers , guessed the crossover knowing the bass driver is not crossed .  Drive them with a late 70s luxman 40watt ss . They sound very good , when I say very good they sound as good and better in  ways than my AAD 2001 monitors with older Pass power amp and tube front (which is an amazing system in itself.) 
  The concept is using drivers/cabinet design/sizing/porting that delivers live performance sound and my lore copies do that . I can only imagine the sets with the mid/high design. 
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mac48025
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Well I went ahead and ordered the Perfect SET’s today ( my 4th pair of Tekton speakers). With Eric’s help I decided upon the originals over the 15’s and went with the upgrade package (mil-spec internal wiring, Cardas binding posts and upgrades caps). I don’t expect the Perfect SET’s to replace my SE’s but wouldn’t be totally shocked if they did. Hope to have them in a couple of weeks or so. 
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