Tekton Double Impacts

corelli........join the club. Buying the DI's was just the beginning. Since getting mine every single improvement made to my system has been clearly portrayed by the DI's and can only imagine what adding the LTA MZ2-S and ZOTL 40 will bring. Like you my system is sounding so good right now I hesitate to change a thing, but I just have to try the LTA pre and amp. teajay's reviews along with numerous LTA owners personal appraisals have me convinced they will bring out the best the DI's have to offer, especially from those that previously owned the same amp I'm now using. I'll be ordering them soon and something tells me you'll be ordering the MZ2-S before long 🔉😀

I may have to let you jump in first mac.  Just got my taxes owed statements. ):
I will be very interested in you thoughts though.

teajay, I have no doubt in your enthusiasm for the LTA gear.  You've had the opportunity to listen to so much more equipment than I ever will and to see you so excited by this little preamp/amp combo really gets me thinking.  It really is a rush to find components that perform at such an incredibly high level --and they're affordable!!  American ingenuity at its best.

Really want to thank you guys for sharing your thoughts and enthusiasm for this type of gear.  These forums have become a vital link in the quest of enjoying our music at its best

Hey corelli,

First, I agree that the good threads on the GON, like this one is, are great at providing information that is useful/helpful to the readers.  The threads that revolve around who's right or wrong are kinda silly and are just rants with individuals getting their ego's in the discussion.

Secondly,  my first love is the music and then comes the fun of putting together a system with great synergy that creates the illusion that the musicians are in my room.  I have been very lucky in the hobby that even though I'm a hard working middle class person I had enough $ to put together systems that allowed me to come home, and just relax in front of my two channel rig and dig the music, mainly jazz.

I have also been lucky to be able for years to hear, either in my home or other listener's systems, most of the highest regarded equipment that was on the market at that time.  Now that I professionally review it's even easier to get the latest/greatest gear in-house to see how good it's performance really is.

You have no idea how often I'm kinda shocked that some of the most expensive gear is lousy, regardless of its price, yet other reviewers rave about in their writings.  My greatest pleasure is finding the true "gems" of our hobby that transcend the cost vs. performance ratio and blow apart this equation so anybody who loves music can put together a system that allows them this experience and still is affordable.

I have less tolerance for individuals then I used to, that rigidity believe that if a piece of gear does not cost a shit load of $ it can't really be any good or just buy on a "bling factor" to show off their new toy. I rather hang out with the true music lovers like the guys on this thread. 

Amen brother teajay.

Teajay makes a very good case for the LTA components particularly the preamp. I'm a jazz aficionado of many happy years.  We all have our individual criteria and sonic hierarchy and for me it's tone,timbre and harmonic overtones authenticity.  This is due I'm sure to the dominant presence of acoustic instruments used in jazz.

Dexter Gordon's tenor saxophone, Monk's piano, Chet Baker'-s trumpet or the vibraphone of Bobby Hutcherson.  If you can't get the natural tone right nothing else the component and/speaker does can correct this major deficiency IMO. You lose much of the emotion. 

If the LTA  does this better than other components far more expensive then this is quite an achievement. I've heard expensive audio products that lack convincing natural  (thus realistic) tone and timbre. 
Charles