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Tekton Double Impacts

Anybody out there heard these??

I have dedicated audio room 14.5x20.5x9 ft.  Currently have Marantz Reference CD/Intergrated paired to Magnepan 1.7's with REL T-7 subs.  For the vast majority of music I love this system.  The only nit pick is that it is lacking/limited in covering say below 35 hz or so.  For the first time actually buzzed the panel with an organ sacd. Bummer.  Thought of upgrading subs to rythmicks but then I will need to high pass the 1.7's.  Really don't want to deal with that approach.

Enter the Double Impacts.  Many interesting things here.  Would certainly have a different set of strengths here.  Dynamics, claimed bottom octave coverage in one package, suspect a good match to current electronics.

I've read all the threads here so we do not need to rehash that.  Just wondering if others out there have FIRST HAND experience with these or other Tekton speakers

Thanks.
corelli
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jcarcopo
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@corelli I’m confused wouldn’t you just go digital out of the CD player into the Lyngdorf? I have redundant blade servers that store my music in lossless flac, so I’m not interested in a transport or CD player, for my front end and I’ll be streaming music over the ROON RAAT protocol over the network where it will be converted to analog from pwm directly in the amp.

CD players? They still make them? 😂 Last time I checked they all have sp/diff and toslink or aes/ebu digital output to feed the Lyngdorf. You're correct that theirs not a conventional DAC in the Lyngdorf because pwm is converted to analog sound directly, bypassing an entire stage in the D to A conversion. 
david_ten
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@corelli Blue is in. : )

Thanks. Things are coming together. I will update once the system is settled....nearly there.
corelli OP
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Thanks for the comments jcarcopo. I guess my point was why would Lyngdorf even bother with a DA convertor when you would just feed the digital output into one of their amps. I suspect the vast majority of their cd-2 players end up paired with their amps so for my money I would have just focused on building a better transport.  But that's just me.  An old school disc spinner I admit.
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jcarcopo
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@corelli They want to sell CD players to people who don't own their other products. Perhaps it was no real extra effort or they didn't go to great cost or length to fully implement their DAC with an analog output.  I do agree though they probably should sell a dedicated stripped down transport for purest using their dac/amp.


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charles1dad
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David,
Congratulations the new T+A integrated amplifier. I know you conducted an admirably thorough audition with it compared to other excellent and highly regarded competitors. Given your objective and preferences you made the best choice in my opinion . I believe that it will mate exceptionally well with the high resolution yet natural sounding Double Impact SE.
Charles
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