Tekton Speakers,Who owns them and what did you replace and why.

I have the Pendragons and really enjoy them for HT and Music.I turned a friend on to them and he also bought a pair.Yep,he loves them as well.I think about upgrading someday to the DI's but that is a long way off still.I need to wait until the youngest Grandkids get older else I might as well kick those those low hanging fruit woofers in myself.They are already trained to leave the guitars that sit in the stand alone[they have their own guitar]but,when they are around, a WWE "Wrastling"match can breakout at anytime.

I am enjoying a pair of lore impulses, great speaker. I made a shift from monitors and sub . 

Great thread Kenny,

I replaced my Legacy Audio Focus SE's, which were very nice speakers, with the DI's and I couldn't be happier. Efficient. Musical. Dynamic. Neutral. Detailed. Basically they sound "right" to me. My previous Tekton speakers were the Enzo's which replaced my Magnepan 1.7i's for many of the same reasons above. As much as I liked the Enzo's the DI's take things to a whole new level and it sounds like their PMD line take things to another level yet......having said that I'm pretty sure any Tekton speaker will provide a lot of musical instruments enjoyment. 

hifiman5,   I watched  Pauls vid and noticed he did not mention poly material for drivers although as he mentioned speakers are not his thing .   - I had read somewhere in the last year or so about the proliferation of polypropylene material drivers and how that material is just not the optimal way to go  for reproducing sound.   It is though  exceptionally cost effective for manufacturers  to use poly drivers  as  they are very easy to manufacture  so much so that its practically like using a waffle iron to make the driver material.        

 Around this time I started reading more and more about Harbeth of which I never paid attention to in the last 15 yrs that I have been  immersed   in my music listening.   Being I buy virtually all my equipment  (preowned)  without auditioning  (it kept  me busy although of late I have settled down staying with my current components)   I decided to spring for Harbeth  7-es3 monitors  (used) which have taken me to a place of  spending the most I have spent on speakers..   Harbeth  has a lot of good info on driver material  and their product  on the site .     and of course plenty of  reviews online.    Im glad I did.    The most musical I have heard thus far.  

  I did have an entry level pair of Tekton's quite awhile back and used  for a very short time and dont remember anything special about them.   Those Tektons of course being very entry level likely do not compare with what is being discussed in this thread.    
Back to poly:     Im guessing  based on my last pair of Decwares that retailed for around 2k and used poly drivers that could be bought for $36 ea online.    I know because I was able to find out in order to replace a few that had been damaged in shipment.   Another story.  
So,  I have to wonder how many "hi end " manufacturers are using poly drivers to keep parts cost down when spending a bit more would bring forth better sound.   Of course the most egregious example would be speakers costing 5k and up and using poly drivers.     To be clear though--its not like they are going to sound awful..  I listened to my MG944's for years and I found no obvious complaint  .    Just coming from a place of getting more for the money ..       

skiroe,  The poly drivers you speak of were all the rage for a short period of time.  I remember auditioning speakers with such drivers and they seemed to have a "plasticy" sound to them.  Paul Mc was making the point that in his experience, regardless of driver material, as long as the speaker designer understood the limitations of the drivers and utilized them within their optimum frequency level that all would be good.

This seemed to me to be appropo to the Tektons as they appear to use very conventional paper cones for the midrange and bass.  Paul's opinion would seem to support  the claim of Tekton devotees as to the superb sound quality of their speakers.

I have personally gone the other way, buying into the efficacy of very sophisticated tight tolerance drivers uniting with  an excellently  executed crossover to deliver outstanding sound.

Which approach is "right"?  Maybe neither or both.  I would love to have the opportunity to hear the Double Impacts of similar Tekton model to hear where they truly fall, at least to my ears, in the pantheon of audiophile speakers.