Tekton Double Impacts
Brief RMAF coverage of the Tekton rooms by Patrick Dillon of AudioMatters... " Tekton Design There's been enormous buzz on various forums about Tekton Design's speakers. Chief Eric Alexander was on hand in one room to demo a pair of floorstanders ($3k) with Parasound amps, while the Parasound room down the hall used a pair of his Double Impact Monitors in their system. Visually, these are nothing special but the multi-tweeter design does catch the eye. My conversation with Eric was interesting. He is a man on a mission who has a distinct view that most speakers are following the wrong design principles. He aims to develop products which respond more like the natural wavelaunch of real instruments in terms of moving mass and speed. I admire his passion and wish him well. Quick take: the floorstanders looked as if they would power out the bass with their dual large woofers, but were remarkably light in that regard. Might have been something to do with the recordings chosen (Eric Clapton live at San Diego mostly when I was there on two occasions). There's a sort of planar quality to the sound that is deceptive given the box nature of the design. The monitors delivered a Michael Hedges track on a Marantz table through Parasound amplification with tremendous body and detail, and provide stiff opposition to many other monitors at the $2k price point. I could easily see a great music system being build around them. Indeed, that Parasound room with the Marantz TT15-s1 ($1495, Clearaudio MM cartridge included) into a Halo JC 3 Jr phono ($1495, to be released later this year) and Halo Integrated ($2595), all connected up with the more affordable end of Straight Wire cable ($670 for the lot used) was one such rig. Great sound all round for less than $10k the lot." http://audiomatters.blogspot.com/2017/10/rmaf-2017-part-ii.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium... |
@charles1dad - Message received sir and I'm sure the DI SE is a fine sounding loudspeaker and would be an upgrade sonically. I've talked with Eric about them and the Ulfberts and even about a hypothetical speaker that's in-between the two price points that he was conjuring up to fill in the lineup between the SE and the Ulfbert, but not the size of the Ulfbert . More Double Impact-esque, not mini-Ulfbert. Unfortunately, my financial situation changed and I put the project on hold for now, but hope to revisit it next year. So any excuse I come up with as to not wanting the DI SE is at least partially predicated on convincing myself I don't want them as a stalling tactic because I want something better and partially because I can't swing the dough at the moment for what I really want. |
