Tekton Double Impacts

"Where's the beef ?" is the colloquism that comes to mind as the prevailing counter-argument.  😂 

Look, if you purchased DIs direct from Eric you avoided dealer markup by buying direct, but with the DIs SE you don't as they are are a dealer marked up product.  The sonic improvement likley does justify this added expense irrespective of the actual cost increases relative to performance for dealer markup, but IMHO and humble opinion,  and I am unanimous in this,  he should jack the price of the DI's up $1,500 because that would allow me to sell my DIs for more money so I can recoup enough money to justify some of this added expense.  One hand washes the other.  Lol 😂  Just saying... 

Mac:
My thought process is similar to yours (which should scare you).

If the sound is there, that's all that matters to me. I have seen some food dishes made with some of the very best and most expensive ingredients money can buy and sometimes they were meh, sometimes they were sublime and sometimes I downright did not like them.

The same is true of less expensive ingredients. It depends on how you cool it, the combination of ingredients and how you season it.

In other words, when paying for a great tasting meal, sometimes the most important parts are not the ingredients, but the knowledge of the chef. It it tastes better than a meal with better ingredients, I submit you would still choose that one because you like it better.

I think the same is true with the Tektons. First, not all companies want the same markup for their components. Some good components are inherently cheaper ti buy because the companies sell for less markup. So Eric may be getting good components that just simply cost less. He makes that decision with his ears.

And his tweeter array seems to have the right stuff to the point that it beats most other speakers with very expensive tweeters and midranges. It is the secret recipe and his trademark. 

If it sounds better, it is worth more to me. If it sounds better and is even cheaper, I'm not really going to look a gift horse in the mouth and wonder why there aren't more expensive parts in it to push up my cost.

The explanation given by Tekton makes it seem like the drivers used in the SE's or his designs play a "major" role than his patent.  Why write a white paper on that patent but won't disclose drivers used in his speakers. Are the drivers more important than his patent that renders all speakers obsolete? Even Magico with expensive custom in-house drivers do disclose their drivers as well as some of the materials used in designing them.

Seems the drivers don’t play that big of role to the sound of the tweeter array as does the crossover and wiring of each tweeter.  I’m guessing he can get very good sound out of many different drivers as long as they fall within certain frequency parameters.  Personally, I would like to see a version of the DIs with powered woofers (Rythmik?) and even higher quality caps in the crossover such as Jupiters.