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Tekton Double Impacts

Anybody out there heard these??

I have dedicated audio room 14.5x20.5x9 ft.  Currently have Marantz Reference CD/Intergrated paired to Magnepan 1.7's with REL T-7 subs.  For the vast majority of music I love this system.  The only nit pick is that it is lacking/limited in covering say below 35 hz or so.  For the first time actually buzzed the panel with an organ sacd. Bummer.  Thought of upgrading subs to rythmicks but then I will need to high pass the 1.7's.  Really don't want to deal with that approach.

Enter the Double Impacts.  Many interesting things here.  Would certainly have a different set of strengths here.  Dynamics, claimed bottom octave coverage in one package, suspect a good match to current electronics.

I've read all the threads here so we do not need to rehash that.  Just wondering if others out there have FIRST HAND experience with these or other Tekton speakers

Thanks.
corelli
david_ten
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@adversam I used my Pass XA 30.8 amp to power both the DIs and the DI-SEs. It was a good match and pairing. 

The XA 25 is an excellent choice.

The Van Alstine may also be a good choice, but I do not have direct experience with it.

All the best with your decisions and final choice.
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millercarbon
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Hi Tekton lovers,
I wanted to ask you for an advice.
I’m trying to build an hifi system around a pair of Double Impacts.
Going to order Don Sach’s preamp and need your opinion on power amp: I’m between Audio Van Alstine Vision Set 400 and Pass Labs XA25.
I’d really want to buy a Pass’ gear, since years. But can any of you mention if that would a good idea? The Impacts have good sensitivity, but they’re massive and Eric mentioned they like power. The XA25 reaches 50W at 4ohm and can go to 200W A/B class into 2ohm. Do you think it’s a good match? Any of you uses the Pass Labs XA25 with the DI’s?
Thanks:)
A Raven Blackhawk will probably sound better for a lot less money than separates. I’m using a 50WPC tube integrated with my Tekton Moabs and that is way more power than needed even at very high SPL in my 17x24x9 room. No way I would ever go looking for more power. More sound quality, sure. If more sound quality happens to come with more power, fine. But I would never go looking for power for power’s sake.

The next amp I want is the 50WPC Raven Reflection. But they are so long to make I will probably be getting a Blackhawk first. 20WPC. Am I worried about having "only" 20WPC? Not in the least. Does Eric say Moabs like power? He does. Pretty sure he says that about all of them. The Perfect SET is made for single digit watt amps, I bet he says that one likes more power too. Some things you learn to take with a grain of salt.


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mapman
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Make sure that those providing power advice for the speakers are using just the speakers and not speakers + powered subs which is a totally different story in regards to power needed just for the mains.

20 watts is very marginal power to drive most any speaker unless they are very easy load and truly high efficiency, which Tektons are not. It will work of course but results will be far from optimal and you could spend a lot of time and money tweaking to try and compensate.

The devil is always in the details.


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lpretiring
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Do you have a Pass brick and mortar within your vicinity? If so, I would try to negotiate an in home trial. If impossible to try out the Pass, Van Alstine offers for cost of shipping in home evaluations for a couple of weeks. 
Maybe it will be what your listening for and you'll have some extra cash left over as well.

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