Tekton Double Impact & Comb Filtering

And when you buy your own pair you can tell us all about it.

Kenny.

You know... I really wished you all could grasp what I'm doing here. The clairvoyance going on here is crazy. Respectfully, comb-filtering was an element I carefully accounted for to avoid at all cost.

The "secret sauce" is the patent. That's it! Nothing else. Mitigate the moving mass and align things properly and the results speak for themselves. People are discerning the proper balance of harmonic content compered to the fundamental tones in their music.

Question: do you want to hear all of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club or just most of it?! If you want to hear it all were the only ones that can do it and we have the patent that proves it. I find it fascinating that audiophiles will spend over $10K for a DAC that is precise and accurate and they pipe it through loudspeakers that literally dumb it back down.

Let me reiterate... no loudspeaker in the history of audio has been designed like this and it doesn't take cluster of tweeters to accomplish it - stay tuned for more.

I was so excited about the design that I reached out to John Atkinson at Stereophile as soon as I was confident we had an amazing loudspeaker created. Sadly, I haven't received a reply from John to date.   

Eric Alexander - audio designer 

@seanheis1

Secret Sauce LOL

Nothing new about anything I mentioned - all this has been understood for 50 years and more. Most conventional loudspeaker designers go a long way to avoid comb filtering - careful driver placement and steep crossovers as well as time alignment of drivers - this is in pursuit of the most accurate portrayal of the source sound. However, companies like Zu and Tekton are defying convention and making designs that offer advantages for those who like a certain style of presentation. The same can be said for tube coloration - much of this coloration is already on the recordings but if you like more of it then get a tube amp and drive it a little into distortion and you get nice harmonics. If you really like the sound of phasing and flanging then a design that adds a little comb filtering will enhance your enjoyment of everything.

As a trick - if you have conventional speakers but suspect you like comb filtering then you can try placing the speakers right up against the side walls so the tweeter is within 3 to 9 inches of the wall.

I would expect the comb filtering on the Tekton DI to be quite subtle and modest - remember that this mostly effects the reflected sound (25 to 40% of the audible sound) as the drivers are all aligned when you listen from directly in front.

All I can say for now,
If you want to hear every little nuance and really hear into the inner detail of your recordings than a Tekton design might be your speaker.

Taking in consideration of the info that has been posted here on the comb filtering issue in the next few days I will wear my audiophile hat and do my best to sort this out.I'ts going to tough to keep that hat on because my system is so engaging in sonics and musicality though.

Kenny.

Sean,

You have so much to say about this and to the best of my knowledge you've never called nor have you made the purchase - the reason you started this thread. To the best of my knowledge you haven't auditioned the DI's either. I encourage everyone to call me directly over just making the online purchase. You also keep lumping me with ZU. Respectfully, I'm questioning your motives here. I think it's time that you make the purchase or move on. At the very least you should call me to discuss the nature of the design and loudspeaker fully. 

Zu and Tekton reside in Utah and that's it. We have ZERO in common with ZU - nothing.

Eric Alexander - audio designer
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