Tekton Double Impacts

I’ll go one step further Teajay. The problem is not exclusively with some "print " reviewers but high end consumers as well who will reject the idea of lower cost audio products performing at high levels. There is a mindset that believes  the more costly then surely  the better.

It’s true that "generally"speaking you get what you pay for but there are more than  a few exceptions to this type of thought process. Teajay as you well know, you have to actually listen to components and form an impression.
Charles

Agreed. We are starting to see cabling, speakers, dacs and digital electronics that represent astounding value and performance. There is a portion of our community that will not open their minds and simply discounts the exciting reality around them. 

I am thrilled that Tekton is shaking things up. 

however if someone knows what there doing I’m sure you could get the speaker to work well in a somewhat smaller environment.

Hopefully you’re correct Terry. The current DIs are positioned in the corners and seem to have no ill effects from that. Which surprised me. I even put up panel at the wall reflection point and all that did is narrow the sound stage, so I removed them. Eric told me there would be no problem with the DIs in the corner too and was correct. I’m currently adding no room correction at all. I’m not sure evolvist believed that when he was here because he asked me about three times if I was sure. At any rate, we’ll know in the near future.

@teajay   Thank you for sharing the details on your system. Very helpful.

@Vitop - You know, that’s very interesting, the concept about other models of loudspeakers not behaving like anything in nature. I’m not sure what kind of "curves" that Eric is talking about, but as we know with headphones, many of them are tuned certain ways to accentuate certain frequencies.

I’m not saying that’s the correct way of designing headphones and/or speakers, yet I’m reminded about the ear/brain connection and how the brain is more attracted to dynamic sounds as they occur in nature as opposed to mechanical ones. It’s much how the eye picks up the color green more than any other color due to our ancient ancestors living in jungle/wooded areas that were rife with predators. Anything that contrasted against green sent up a red flag, so to speak.

The point is, in my study of the ear/brain connection this harkens to the "Loudness Wars" and how dynamically the ear brain wants to reject the compromised, digitally compressed music that has been the rage over the last 20-years or so.

It makes me wonder, then, about Tekton’s patent and if it’s not simply a way to adjust the voicing to be more "natural." Therefore, is it the speaker’s responsibility to be as flat as possible, or is it a natural representation of sound that caters more to what the brain wants to decipher? I figure that a hi-fi speaker should yes, be surgical and resolving enough to hear the smallest nuances of the music, though what is a flat frequency response if not a graphical representation of what people have determined to be correct and true. They are mere plots on paper. Sure, there is merit in the study of frequency, despite how we all internalize certain frequencies in different ways. There are some of us who might loathe the sound produced by a trumpet, yet revel in the sound of a musical saw.

Here’s the trip: at Bob’s house I noticed that digitally compressed music was much more palatable voiced through the DIs. It made me wonder if the DIs are a more "natural" conduit - a champion of dynamism - that plays music more in the the way that people want to hear it versus the way we’re told *how* we must hear it.

I doubt that the Tekton "magic" occurs with wild peaks and slopes across the audible frequency band; however, with much talk of "overtones" and such, perhaps we’re giving the actual music a fighting chance here.