Tekton Double Impacts

Nice review corelli. I concur with your assessment but give them more time for the bass to fill in. If the bass doesn't fully fill in you might want to experiment with speaker placement and/or listening position as you may be sitting in a bass null. I find their bass to be very deep, musical and impactful. You know you have something special when the wife is impressed! Congrats. 

Good first impressions but you lost me on this comment "...despite generous dimensions, the DI's float a big stage." I would have expected nothing less from speakers at 4.5 feet tall, if placed at a reasonable distance from the back wall.

It's been my experience that small monitors often can produce very open expansive soundstages while larger speakers sometimes paradoxically fall short in this regard--just my experience and clearly not always the case

mac, you are right.  I don't have enough hours on them to comment on their ultimate bass extension.  Will post later on that.  As I said, the bass is of great quality even now.

I have played around a lot with speaker placement in this room and I do think they are in the rooms sweet spot.  Soundstage for me will always take precedence along with clean balanced bass.  So I am forced to give up a bit of extension. We all have to make our choices I guess.

I'm really looking forward to further listening.  And I want to thank you mac for your posts.  I read all your posts on another sight and  your commentary gave the information I needed to pull the trigger on this.  To think I might have otherwise missed out!

So I hope my posts might help someone else trying to make a decision down the road.  How our hobby has changed over the decades.  We now make purchases of equipment we have never heard based on the opinions of fellow audiophiles.  And you know what?  It's really not a bad way to go!

 Corelli,
             When I finally heard these speakers my thought was "how could these speakers be $3,000? If they had a big audio name on them they would be at a minimum $30,000. I know we don't buy speakers by the pound but these are large speakers!