Tekton Double Impacts

@kdude66

You,I and possibly others may be a little crazy for loving our old technology SET and SEP amps but here is my take on this.

Kenny, we are definitely not crazy, but I do like to self-deprecate so I can make my point in a less a offensive way.

One way to begin a non offensive post, but still make your point.

Step 1: "It’s not you, it’s me...open with some non threatening self-deprecation."
ie: "Maybe I’m mistaken, wrong, and clearly insane, but I believe I’m right about XYZ"

Now that’s just step 1, there are more steps, but I don’t like giving out trade secrets or boring people with diatribes as I get older, but step one is like getting your foot in the door of a person’s mind and tends to keep it open. Comedians self-deprecate to woo their audience all the time. LOL

the distortion spectra of triodes is favorable, with a rapid fall-off of the upper harmonics.

(This is less true for beam tetrodes, pentodes, or solid-state devices, which are intrinsically less linear and have higher-order distortion curves.)

Ditto, couldn’t say it better if I wanted to.

This performance is with a Set amp running in their sweet spot of output which is 20 to 30% of that particular amps output pwr as a general rule for the very best sound.

This is were the best purity of sound "May" come from for folks that like these kind of Amps.

Again, spot on.

Again this is a highly personal and subjective subject and there is no right or wrong just different flavors of that coffee available to us Individually for our enjoyment of music,that we love,playback in our homes.

This^ is the final step in my guide of how to write non offensive posts and still have an opinion. LOL

I call it Final Step: "Opinions are like assholes, so acknowledge other people’s if you want them to acknowledge yours!" LOL

Looks like you’re playing with a full deck to me, definitely not crazy at all. I will only add that when I learned that amplifying the entire sine wave continuously in class A without decimating the signal and introducing cross-over distortion via the use of a phase splitter in a push-pull topology was like an "Ah Hah" moment for me being very interested in the simplicity and purity of the SET circuit design.

I equivocate it to my "Humpty Dumpty" analogy. Sure you can separate phase and antiphase, but putting it back together again isn’t without some degradation or the introduction of crossover distortion. In other words Humpty Dumpty can be glued back together again, but ends up looking like a mosaic puzzle with cracks and fractures and is now nothing more than a
shell of his former self. (+5 Word Play Points).

@teajay , @david_ten , @grannyring , @kdude66 , @mikirob , @jcarcopo, @grey9hound : Thank you for your valuable posts! Can you please post pictures of your systems in Audiogon’s Virtual System pages? ..... "A picture is worth a thousand words"

@charles1dad , @mac48025: Thanks for posting pictures of your systems. I can almost "hear" what your systems sound like by looking at your gear, your room and how you have it set-up.

Kdude,
very interested in your take on the Lyngdorf. Everything I have read points to it being a pretty amazing piece. If I could get rid of a big stack of components and replace with a 20lb integrated with no loss of sound quality and the benefit of room correction that would be the cats ass! 

@sbayne 

Here you go. My audio setup.

https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/6723

Personally, I appreciate reading the thoughts that others have when I know they have well-trained ears for music and present their thoughts in an open-ended manner. We are all individuals that have different tasts in types of music and what we hear within that room.
Thank you grannyring for posting your thoughts, comparisons, and examples of the Tekton Double Impact speakers, and to many other individuals that also contribute to our education.