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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
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bullitt5094
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Evolvist and I are planning to audition my DIs and likely my DI SEs at his place sometime in the near future. (Hopefully that won't cost me $100K in upgrades.) I'm very interested in the alternative measurement based room correction also. Honestly, I've never been happy with Audyssey for full corrections in my HT environment. For Bass correction REW helps. But just manually inputting the speaker distances, setting levels by ear and adding Bass correction seems to work the best for me. Even with the Bass I always end up tweaking it manually.
vitop
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David:

It always takes me forever to get stuff done, but yes, I'll make it available for a listen once set up. I want to get to 4K so I can get the benefit of the Atmos sound system. Not sure I can afford it after all of this!
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Evolist, agree that you must hear and experience it to know! I know the Lyngdorf room correction helped me obtain sound improvement that was beyond my past switching and upgrading of all manner of gear.
evolvist
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@grannyring I've experienced that one-box solutions like the Lyngdorf and DEQX have better results rather than shoehorning a solution into a computer, fed through software that integrates into a third-party software like JRiver and Roon.

I'm not saying that these DSP boxes and software with mics don't work, nor do I know everything about room correction. I don't. It just so happens that I have some experience, but that doesn't mean anything. It's experience, yet it's limited to my personal optic.

That said, over on the Linn forum there are a few users who use Space Optimization who do final tweaks in other software with a mic.That being the case, you can see that some Linn users feel that Space Optimization is not the be-all-end-all. It's probably not. The only thing that I was pointing out were some of the trappings inherent in a mic solution.

Also, because I use one solution that I own doesn't mean that I have some sort elitist complex. That's far from it. I don't care what the gear is, as long as the user gets the desired results for them. That's all that matters, is listen with happiness. :-) 

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grannyring
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True that. 
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