Former Tekton owners: What have you moved on to?


I owned the Tekton Lore Reference for about a year and a half and they were great for the price. I ran them with a 50w tube integrated and it was a nice combo. For $750 I had no complaints except perhaps that the paint was cracking on one of the rounded corners. I ended up buying a pair of Gallo CL-2 for an office system on closeout direct from Gallo for $390/pair. After they were broken in I found myself listening to them more than the Tektons after awhile. I was getting addicted to the CDT tweeter.

Based on that experience I ordered the CL-3 refurbished for $650/pair shipped (crazy steal) and they were on a different level than both of the above. Sonically, one defining moment for me was listening to Joni Mitchell, Both Sides Now. (I think the Track was You’re My Thrill. )
During the intro there is a brief flute soli. With the Tektons it sounded like a really nice flute section that was very homogenous sounding and blended. With the Gallos I could hear each individual flute player and their unique tones and vibrato. The bass was also deeper and tighter on the gallos and the imaging was just amazingly holographic and wide and deep.

I know the timing of this is interesting as the Tekton hype train seems to be at full tilt right now with some of his higher models and I am curious to hear them. The 2 things that would give me serious pause and keep me from moving up the Tekton line are 1) the size and aesthetics 2) The very much "in your face" house sound that can get tiring to me.  Just wondering what others have moved on to from Tekton and what they heard that moved them in that direction.
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Modern day Vandies,very nice and I hope they bring you many yrs of musical bliss.

Richard is definitely a long term highly respected speaker designer and builder for many yrs.Can’t go wrong with those.

Kenny.

Schw06,
If I remember correctly,
Your pair of DI’s are one of 3 pairs that folks have bought that included the “Upgraded Crossovers” and the purchased price at the time of sale reflected this.
But after receiving the speakers we quickly learned they were built with some of the cheapest parts around,Dayton audio Wow,most certainly not the so called better upgraded parts that were purchased.Totally unfathomable in my book.

Now another very confusing and disappointing aspect of this design is the continue designers tweaking and changing of crossover parts quality,specs,and designing “Band Aid” fixes to address some of the overall shortcomings in sonics that this speaker has.

Most reputable manufacturers that I can think of usually have their designs pretty well squared away before releasing to sale.

The pair I owned would be about 1 yr old now,if I still had them,and over this period of time I learned from several members via pm’s that their crossover Implementations vary in overall parts specs and quality vs the pair I had.

Basically like a continuing “Work In Progress” or WIP speaker at the owners expense,nobody knows exactly what version you may have.

Kenny.
I’m going to put this in here since it’s been a pretty popular thread:

I have started the process of shopping for a speaker upgrade to my Gallo CL3’s which I really like, but as you all know there’s that itch...so my budget is max 5k but would really like to keep it to 3500 new or used. I just weaned off of tubes and sold my dac by going to the amazing Job INTegrated amp with built in dac. With a nice power cord on it, this thing is scary good for the price and I don’t miss tubes in the least, and I love minimalism.
System:
Gallo CL3
Job INTegrated
sotm sms200 streamer
(also have a TT and CDP that I barely use)

Speakers I have been thinking about:
Goldenear Triton 2+ and 1
Ryan 620 or 630
Used Vandersteen Treo CT
Aurum Cantus V7F

ANy input on this list? Any additions? My room is about 11X20 but I have to sit about 7-8ft from the speakers because of the config.

I even thought about going back to Tekton and trying DI’s for a minute - then I showed my wife a pic of them. LOL I don’t think that’s going to happen, but just in case - do they work as a midfield speaker? There is so much surface area with so much going on it seems like the coherence might not be ideal at 7ft away?
I think you can listen at them midfield...7ft? I have the monitor Impact perfect at 6ft...