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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
 
Craig,

Reviewers talk uniformly about how good the bass response is with Class D and we shall see. Am able to make adjustments with Apqualizr.

I don't think you will need any adjustments in the bass department,
The Nord will deliver the deepest,tightest,most controlled bass of any other Class d amp that I have heard.Can be a touch dry depending on what you pair with them in the rest of your system and or what kinda bass that a person may be used to with other equipment.

Kenny.
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jcarcopo
504 posts
 
I recently did an install for a guy using the Nords. They are pretty impressive sounding SS Class D amps for the money. Very detailed and very controlled bass. He opted for the warmer richer sounding sparkos op-amps for his One-Up SE monoblocks, but IMHO I wouldn't call the sound warm at all when compared to valves, but maybe compared to the Sonic Imagery op-amps they might be. I have no frame of reference. In hindsight,  I maybe should have recommended the Benchmark AHB2 amp as a slightly better, but more expensive option, but the guy is 76 with hearing aids and his wife was nonplussed about the nuances of audiophilia. He did tell me his wife and daughter’s family visited from out of town and they had a blast until 2am listening to the amplifiers and the Klipsch RF-7IIS I had sold him after I received my DI’s.

+10 pts for working into the conversation a brief mentioning of the DIs in an otherwise irrelevant digressive post.

Lol
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charles1dad
10,250 posts
 
Hi Kenny,
Thanks for your very insightful comments. You certainly have  much direct listening experience with quite a lot of high quality components and speakers. Your impression of the Magico sound concur with mine. Impressive in the Hifi realm but for me they just lack expressing the emotion, communication and humanity inherent in good music.IMO there isn’t soul or breath of life presentation which I find mandatory. for music listening. I do acknowledge that some consider Magico the pinnacle of speaker design. To each their own.
Charles
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charles1dad
10,250 posts
 
Hi Mac,
Just let me know when the time is good for you.  I'll be back in Michigan early next week. 
Charles 
craigl59
307 posts
 

Kenny:
Colin told me that they keep the declared value at $299 and, so, the customs people do not check it. He also promises to meet his 2-week deadline.

BTW, just got a Bohemian SACD of Dvorak's Slavonic Dances (Fischer/Budapest Phil) AND, for the second time, heard the DIs do something I had not heard before. Heard live, the Dances have this guttural power in the low-mid and bass regions that I can best describe as "Slavic rumble." The DIs reproduce this sound eerily accurately. Have never heard this quality reproduced in another speaker. Kudos once again to Eric...

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