Tekton Double Impact & Comb Filtering

Mr. Eric, I have actually said very little. I have posted the opinions of others, who are much smarter than myself...they don't have the innate knowledge of your loudspeakers like you do...but they understand the math and physics stuff and don't appear to have any conflicts of interest. 

My definition of hifi is improving the original recording. If that means tubes, vinyl, multibit DAC, or a bit of comb filtering to get that feeling of being there in the presence of the music, then in my book that's a good thing. 

There are a lot more speakers that I want to listen to before making a decision, but yours are by far the most interesting and I like the custom colors. 

Much, much, too much nincompoopery here and it is not from Eric Alexander or kdude66. I need to stop reading this particular thread. Best, mikirob

Sounds good Sean.

Eric 

Geez, and all this time I've been thinking Peter Walker got it right with his Quad ESL back in 1957. Apparently not, as Eric Alexander now proclaims "If you want to hear it all were (sic) the only ones that can do it". Yeah, you and Trump.

213runnin, don’t you own Totem Rainmaker? Check the Stereophile measurements on them. The same 12 db swing in frequency response you are blasting Tekton for (-5/+7 db). Totem’s specs state +/- 3 db, which are off by 100 percent. What good are those specs? Lots of really bad cabinet resonances too. I thought that kind of coloration wasn’t your cup of tea. I have never heard Rainmaker so I can’t comment on how it sounds, but the measurements do not look very good. But I have heard Arro, and liked them well enough for what they do....

csmgolf, 2 things. First, that review is from 2004, and the Rainmakers have gone through some changes since then. Totem is both revered and hated for improving their speakers from time to time without so much as a "V2" in the upgraded speaker. So a measurement from 2004 is not going to be an accurate representation of the current sound. Also, the Rainmaker was specifically designed to have the "U" shaped frequency response that was first made popular in the 70’s, by a British speaker I believe. Either way, at least Totem put a decibel range on the frequency response, unlike Tekton.

Second, the Rainmaker is a 1200 speaker. At that price is it made in North America, the cabinets alone take 2 hours to complete. The parts are all from non China based manufacturers, as Totem is one of the few that tries to stand against all manufacturing ending up in China. So one will pay a premium for that stand. Bottom line, the Double Impact is a $3000 speaker, and shouldn’t have the same compromises WRT cabinet resonances and wider than usual frequency swings.

Look, buy what you want, and like what you want. But this over-the-top defensiveness for anything Tekton is silly. Personal attacks against me and my Rainmakers(I’ve owned about 15 different pairs of speakers in the last 3 years) is also silly. Just accept the fact that not everyone will love the speakers you love.