Tekton Double Impact & Comb Filtering

7. Reasonable profit margin.

The High End audio industry is full of outrageous margin pricing. Companies like Tekton and Core Power Technology are making world class products with reasonable margin expectations so many audiophiles can enjoy their products!

Hifiman5
Based on your logic wondering how Tekton DI only cost $3,000 retail, the opposite could also be true. Even if a speaker maker quadruple Tekton's cost internally, wire, capacitors, speakers and so forth, how does he justify a $30,000 to $50,000 price point? I have Devore 0/96 and Harbeth SHL5s. I bet their internals don't cost mega bucks more than the Tekton DIs. How do they justify their cost? Nice cabinetry? I judge everything in my system by how it sounds to my ears in my environment. Best, mikirob

Hifiman5
It must be difficult to be so in the dark about business models. If you think real hard perhaps, just maybe you can figure it out.

I'm always amazed when a company such as Tekton produces something worthy/significant at a reasonable cost and instead of accolades or a well done for their accomplishment they engender attacks, like in this thread. Extremely weird. mikirob

Hi Mikirob,
You judge audio products by how they sound? Well so do I, Yes I understand that this is a strange and unconventional approach 😊
There’s an odd aspect of the High End audio community in that products can be looked down upon and dismissed "because "of their lower price.

There’s an ongoing thread that basically takes aim at Tekton Double Impacts and their owners. Essentially the premise is the speaker is "midlevel " quality and undeserving of the high attention level it has garnered. The OP of that thread hasn’t heard the Double Impact but deems it is not true High End caliber.

How one can glean so much information based on preformed assumptions is a mystery. There is a snooty snob attitude at work and this isn’t uncommon in the audiophile sector. Brand status and very high cost are required for approval or Acceptance.

Perhaps that OP and others of that mindset would find the Double Impacts unsuitable by their lofty standards, okay that’s fine. I'm a free market advocate and believe people can spend what ever they want, that’s their call.   My only point is to base an opinion on actual listening. I’ve heard very expensive speakers and some of them are truly superb sounding, yet still could be considered overpriced. This is subjective I freely acknowledge.

I do believe that higher price is actually viewed as a definite plus factor for a certain segment of audiophiles. That’s okay as there are always going to be distinct niches formed and individuals will decide where they fit in. My criteria is listen first and then offer a honest impression. Maybe Tekton's pricing model intimidates some, who knows. 
Charles