Tekton Double Impacts

Jonathan, 
Got it 😊
Charles 

David,
Does a complete cable loom change count as a major upgrade or just component changes? Want to be clear on the stipulations. 
Charles 

Reminds me of my Corporate Days. Leave a meeting to sign off on a sale, and the guys do their best to slip something by me. Tonight it was dinner for family! 😊

I agree, it’s for Jonathan to decide.

My reference point would be where he was with the Double Impacts and where he gets to, OR has committed to, at the two month mark.

Both of you are generally in the camp that ’nothing’ is going to change as evidenced here:

I side with @charles1dad I tend to find a happy delta which I believe I have attained. I’m definitely caught up on all my upgrades.

I’ve found tube guys to be ’tricky’ with what they consider ’no change.’ 😊 More appropriately labelled ’benign denial.’ 😄

For me, again for reference: going from 8wpc to 13wpc, a 62% increase in power per channel, along with an outright change in tubes is a notable adjustment, without even considering the cost of doing so. This has already happened.

For me this would be ’akin’ to my changing the power cable to my primary source, my USB cable from it and swapping out isolation devices (as an example). I would consider this a ’significant’ change.

Baseline is today and as I said, this is a friendly wager with Jonathan in the driver’s seat.

Guys, I want to lose...it means a free and hopefully tasty meal. Though I have no idea how fried okra travels. 🤨

Charles, I will defer to Jonathan on what he considers a ’significant’ movement from where he was with his Double Impacts to where he gets to with his Encores.

For me, a cable loom change is greater than a component change because it is a system wide change, and across multiple components. My perspective. I don't know where Jonathan falls on the cable spectrum.

Glad to see this discussion motoring right along. I want to echo david_ten's observations on break-in. It took my Double Impacts at least 300-400 hours to reach their peak, and I am finding that the SEs are taking just as long or longer. Unfortunately, they were going through a "down" phase when Dan (kebouchard84) came by for an audition a couple of weeks ago, resulting in some looseness and lack of definition and impact in the bass and some stridency in the upper frequencies, especially on some recordings. For a few days, I found it difficult to listen to much of anything but acoustic, very well-recorded music. I had warned him in advance that they were still fairly early in the break-in process and that the sound would be unpredictable. Of course, he can speak for himself if he chooses, but I think he heard the potential in the speakers in spite of these issues. He spoke glowingly of his audition of the Double Impacts at grey9hound's place.

My SEs are sounding much improved now, glorious at times. Given my experience with the Double Impacts, I know this story will have a happy ending, though there is still some distance yet to travel. In some cases with these speakers, much patience is required, but the pay-off is extraordinary. Until then, it's a bit of a roller coaster ride, at least for some of us. The good news is that you do get glimpses of their greatness along the way.