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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Lula,
I Can’t offer any real insight on either Lawrence monitors other than what 2 dealers told me.Both,Jay Kaufman of audio revelations and Mike Kay of Audio archon both said the mandolin is a little more sweeter and musical than the violin.

Lawrence never gained much interest in America,they didn’t market their speakers much here and they also experienced a bad deal 5 yrs ago at RMAF unfortunately.There’s only 3 dealers left now and Jay is semi retired and shrinking his business down.

As a tidbit,I’ve been told that there has been only 4 sets of the double bass speakers shipped to America,and Offcourse my pair is one of them.

I recently inquired about their bird series but no one has any real information about them and all I got was priceing info.None of the bird series has ever been sold here.

I’m personally not interested in any monitor speaker,I only want larger floor standers.

Good luck with your search,
Kenny.



So I heard the Triton Reference, Paradigm Persona 3f and triton 2+ all with my amp today and I learned that in many cases you do get what you pay for. The personas were very impressive. Out of my range unless I wait. Thanks for the Ascend sierra tower rec. I forgot about them 
Yup I heard the personas as well. They are impressive. I used to own the Triton Ones. Depends what you are looking for. The Personas are ruthless in a sense. The Golden Ears not so much as well as a lot of other speakers. No dought that technically from measurements the Personas are superior probably to most of what is out there now. They are really amazing IMO. 
I hope the Paradigm Personas look better in person than they do in the magazine pictures. 

ozzy