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
I don't know who called these midfi speakers, but that is a minority report if that is something from an owner. You really, really want to find fault with this product, don't you? I just can't figure out why that is.

"My guess is that the Brilliance is geared more towards 2 channel in a medium room and the DI is more geared towards larger rooms and home theater"...

LIghten up Bullitt,Im just asking is this what were are now discussing of have been . I was under the impression these speakers were giant killers replacing 30K speakers

Where in that quote do you come up with midfi? I use my DIs for HT & 2ch just as I used my B&W 804s for both HT and 2ch before the Tektons unseated them. I'm about to add Odyssey Candela pre and Kismet Reference power amp pieces to the same HT front end. The Candela allows a pass-through mode for HT applications. Best of both worlds. Using the Odyssey pieces in HT certainly doesn't make it midfi.
I stand corrected.Having said that I dont know Odyssey or Kismet but I certainly wouldnt call the 804s as high end.
grannyring,

You bring up some good questions related to this review,
I will have to read it again more thoughts to follow.

Kenny.