Tekton Double Impacts

Bill (Grannyring), I just want to say thanks for the characteristically nuanced, thorough, and well written comments you provided about the DI earlier today. And, more importantly, to express the hope that the unrelated issue you referred to resolves quickly and fully.

Best regards,
-- Al

Hi Bill (Grannyring),
I feel that your assessment of the Double Impacts is very astute. Having heard this speaker my impression matches yours. It is a very good sounding speaker. As you point out it isn’t perfect (nor is any speaker) but it has substantial modification potential.

Your scrutiny of the quality of the wire,resistors and capacitors is on the mark (given the part list you provided). You very fairly acknowledge the reasons for the stock parts and the reality of price point and market/manufacturing considerations. You and I both know that judicious selection of premium capacitors, wire, resistors etc can result in truly impressive sound quality improvement.

People upgrade passive parts in 30-40,000.00 peakers so it is not a put down of the Double Impact to suggest the same. Your budget of 1500.00 dollars to upgrade (if so desired) would transform a very good sounding speaker to an even higher level. Good post and advice.you provided to this thread.
Charles

@Teejay,
"There are at least three professional reviewers who have shared to me that they "are eating crow" because when they first read my review on the DI's they thought I was on the take or drinking laced Kool-Aid to say they were better then the Cello's, until they got to hear them with their own ears. All had reviewed or owned speakers above the 20K price range and admitted the DI's were at least as good or better then the much more expensive speakers".

Are these three reviewers reviewing the DI's for publication? Are they members on Audiogon?  Can they post here? It would be nice to hear from the horse's mouth, so they can share their direct experience along with the speakers they compared the DI's to.

There are so many really good speakers out there if you are looking for stereo. So few REALLY good speaker lines have a full HT line that I like.

All of these different speakers really gives me the itch to shop, shop, shop. 

My heath is fine. My mental health suffers when on the Gon threads as I find they go nowhere due to closed mindedness among other things.  I won’t go into it here. Many good folks on this thread and enjoy your DIs. I will take mine to a level beyond the SEs and see what that does. Should be fun, informative, and a labor of love.