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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
kdude66
1,200 posts
 
David,

My pair of Di's had only one set of terminals,and I did'nt want to add another pair so I carefully drilled a hole below the existing terminals and soldered them directly to the woofer crossover which I upgraded the cap and resistor anyway.You would have to remove the bottom woofer and the woofer crossover is mounted horz. on the crossbrace.The mids and tweeters have there own crossover mounted vertically on the sealed cavity.I did buy a upgraded pair of di's and I don't see any reason to change the internal wiring though.

I did change all 4 woofers to all black ones and I used eminence beta's instead of the blue alpha's, just a personal preference.

I will change some caps on the tweeter and mids crossover,I just haven't got to it yet.

Kenny.

lancelock
1,093 posts
 
Does anyone know what differences there are with the new SE version? I don't see anything on his web site but have heard some chatter here about this version.
kdude66
1,200 posts
 
Lance,

Now Eric hasn't released the SE to dealers only yet so no real specs yet.I think they will be an all scanspeak driver with lwr efficiency probably around 90 to 92 db and might have better crossover components.

I would like to hear a pair even though I'm happy with mine and the Ulfberhts would just be to big for our room.

The SE's should be priced around 6k which is quite reasonable I think.

Kenny.

333jeffery
122 posts
 
The speaker cables I use on all my setups are from an Ebay seller named Amplifier Surgery. They are 8-gauge silver plated copper with Deltron plugs. Nice sound and very economical. My interconnects are from Marc Tunis, he does good work.
david_ten
5,480 posts
 
@kdude66  and @333jeffery Thanks for your thoughts on the matter. Good to see that both of you give a nod to Marc Tunis.

BTW Kenny, this is one of the most elegant ways I have seen the topic broached! :)      "I quess I will bite on this cable subject,after many years chasing the latest cables I have reached a firm opinion that as long as my system has decent cables and sold connections it really doesn't matter so much the only real differences are price."

My workshop is going to be completed at the very end of our home renovation. Not having a work area set up for my bikes is 'killing me' and that comes first. So the diy route will have to wait until I am fully set up to handle it.

The Audience cables, courtesy of the lending library, will be here on Friday. I've only had two other 'higher end' speaker cables in my previous system. One was terrific, the other not so much. I've been using Audio Art Speaker Cables for quite sometime now, and I've been very happy with their performance, especially so when I consider their value.

The problem I have run into is that there are so many options and multiples of that in opinion. So the only way I can sort it out is to take a chance on word of mouth from those I trust and then run them within my own system.

Thanks.


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