Tekton Double Impacts

Hey Everybody,

Last night I wrote my review on the Ulf's for hometheatereview.com and now my proof reader will clean it up before its submitted to my editor.  It was a pleasure to write it and its a joy to have Eric's brilliant creation producing music in my home.  

I still firmly stuck to my position that you need the right acoustic space (large with enough space from the front and side walls with a very high ceiling) for these magnificent music makers to breathe and live up to their ultimate level of performance. 

No doubt, my favorite combo on the DI's and now the Ulf's is the Micro-ZOTL and the Triode Lab 2A3 by far and I got in-house superlative gear to compare this pairing to which is mentioned in my review.

Hope, this review will go up on the website in the next 4 to 6 weeks.

snopro
thank you for your excellent comments. Honest and fair based on your listening experience. You have a very nice set-up. Best, mikirob

Hi Joe (Snopro),
As others have said your comments and opinions are most welcome and appreciated on this thread. You and I have shared dialogue on this forum for a number of years and I’ve the "upmost" regard for your always insightful contributions. As others have noted, you have assembled an excellent audio system.

There is simply no audio component that will please everyone all the time, impossible task. Some people scoff at the idea of synergy, I certainly do not. Multip6 variables determine the final sound quality of a system, what is a good fit here is a bad fit there. That’s why much of High End Audio revolves around trial and error. You just don’t really know until you’ve heard it and preferably in your own system.

You did exactly this and honestly stated your individual listening experiences, what more can one do? The LTA MZ2-S was/is fabulous for Teajay in his system. Your findings have equal validity, I respect both you and your listening experiences.

I heard this line stage with my Frankenstein in Tom’s system and the match was quite good sounding  in my opinion. Tom will bring the MZ2-S to my home in a few days and we’ll compare it to the Coincident Statement Line Stage.
Charles

Looking forward to it Terry.
Any idea if you will also be reviewing the mini Ulfs when they are released?

Hi David,
What I meant in regard to comparing the Line Magnetic SET and the Pass Labs is the contrast between very different topologies and design.
1 DHT tube versus bipolar transistors.
2 No NFB vs some NFB
3 moderately high output impedance vs low output impedance
4 Low vs higher damping factor
5 Very different input circuits

With these significant contrasts  most would expect resulting different sonic character. Of course listening is the only way to confirm these assumptions thus my curiosity.
Charles