Tekton Double Impact & Comb Filtering


Like many of you, I have been pondering purchasing these speakers but am very curious about the unusual tweeter array. I asked the smartest speaker person that I know (he is a student of Sean Olive) about the design and below is what he had to say.   

"In theory it could work, but the driver spacing means that the crossover point would need to be very low.
He is using the SB acoustics tweeter which is 72mm in diameter, center to center on the outside opposing drivers is around 5.7 inches, which is about 2400Hz. This means that combing would stop between 1/4 to 1/2 of the wavelength (between 1200-600Hz) is where the outside tweeters should start playing nice with each other.
Since he is not using low enough crossover points he has created a comb filtering monster. Now while it's not the great point source that was promised, it's no worse than most line arrays and the combing will average itself out given enough listening distance.

The MTM spacing on the other hand is ridiculous. Hopefully he is cutting the top end off on one of those midrange drivers to avoid combing."

seanheis1
Don't call him...who the heck are you to say that.Are you an employee of tekton? Hate to tell ya my friend but my guess is anyone including myself will call if and when we want
Missioncoonery,

I believe you have every right to call Tekton and talk to Eric,
Maybe you will decide to buy yourself a pair and then you could give us your evaluation,good,bad,or ugly.


Kenny.
Out of curiosity, those of you who ordered your DIs with upgrades but standard colors, how long did take to have them delivered?
@kalali :  My turnaround time for the upgraded DIs in standard color was about three weeks from order to doorstep. FedEx was great and they actually wheeled each box in to my audio rooom. I don't think that is standard FedEx practice. :)