Tekton Double Impacts

mikirob,
I respect your experience. The DI may be totally different from my Enzos. I do believe Tekton is capable of making a good speaker. If they install good drivers, crossovers, and a well braced enclosure with the appropriate volume to match the drivers, it should sound good. It's not that difficult to build a good speaker nowadays.

Sounds like my Enzo’s had something wrong with them. Maybe they had reverse polarity or something, perhaps that why they sounded dull and muddy.

I should say that the 2 Pendragon subs I had were not bad, I can’t complain about those. I sold them however, because every time I looked at them it reminded me of my bad experience, it made me feel sick to my stomach just thinking about it.

I’m sorry racer12b. That’s terribly sad. You say your Enzo’s didn’t even have internal bracing - this is extremely odd as every Enzo ever produced has internal bracing within it. Do you have any pictures? Maybe you got an Asian knock-off of the patented design...??

Sound is so subjective. Just because you didn’t like them yourself doesn’t mean the speaker (or any other speaker) sounds bad. We all have different tastes and opinions of how sound should be done. 4.55 people out of every 100 return the Double Impact to me and this proves I cannot make everyone happy all of the time. I say they don’t know how to listen, they can’t focus on subtle nuances and details, or maybe their room is garbage acoustically. A few individuals simply enjoy trolling for gear, they purchase, enjoy, evaluate and move on to something new. I’ve been doing this for over 30 years and I’m completely convinced some individuals cannot discern good sound even if it jumped up and bit them. Some of them are even CEO’s of loudspeaker companies.

Anyway, the Enzo was created years ago and has ABSOLUTELY ZERO to do with the Double Impact of today so everyone can rest easy. The DI’s absolutely slaughter the original Enzo! I created the original Enzo for one reason only... a viable alternative to the B&W 804. Nothing more... nothing less. Your MMG Magnepan’s were frankly the last thing on my mind as some type of benchmark.

Because sound is so subjective to all of us... in my humble opinion, the MMG Magnepan (and every other flat panel speaker) precludes itself from EVER qualifying itself as a true reference ’music producer’ because they are fundamentally flawed. Flat tweeters (ribbons, AMT's, planars, etc...) tend to fall in this category for me as well. Flat panel speakers radiate in a planer fashion (it shoots out a flat wave-front) and they have limited excursion. They cannot even be played to dynamic reference levels. It's like owning a Ferrari that can never go beyond 40 MPH - as a drummer and musician the thought is illogical and foreign to me. Furthermore, last time I checked there were no planar radiating musical instruments in any orchestras. This is like planting peas and expecting to get a crop of corn.

Eric Alexander - audio designer

racer - I appreciate the contact, but since I heard them myself, I know what they sound like and I like them. Not sure what the situation was with the speakers you had.

Now on to a more fun topic:

I spent most of last night listening to a variety of different types of music (blues, rock, jazz, soul, classical) that were either recorded in the studio or live in different venues to further evaluate  the Ulf's for my up coming review.  It became very difficult to keep my "reviewers hat" on because this speaker allows you to relax and connect to the emotions that the musicians are conveying in their performance.  Yes, all the parameters of world reference level standards (effortless dynamics, total transparency allowing all the micro-details to be easily heard, accurate sound-staging with air and space between the players, beautiful timbres/colors, and a bottom end that totally pressurizes the room) are done by this magnificent speaker, without it sounding analytical or losing the feeling in the music.

Another amazing aspect is how, just like the DI's, this VERY big speaker just disappears like the best of the breed of world class two way monitors do if set-up the right way.  Can a 12K speaker be considered a bargain?  If it out performs virtually anything on the current market, which I believe the Ulf's do, the answer is yes!  Two more listeners that I know personally have sold off their speakers that retail for around 30K and replaced them with the DI's, so the owners of even more expensive speakers might really trip out when they hear is offered by the Ulf's compared to their 100K transducers.   

Thanks for your listening session updates and findings. And YES, it's a pleasant diversion to be focused on the positive. Appreciate it!