Tekton Double Impacts

Hi, this is Ezra, owner of the ulfbhert Be's to which my dear friend Tejay was referring. I have also heard the regular ulfbhert  speakers as compared to my beryllium ulfbherts . I find it amazing as to how men perceive and interpret sound differently.  first, allow me to give a brief description  of my room with which I have lived for twenty years and am most familiar with. my room is 15 ft wide by 26 ft deep by 8 ft high. it is cement on dirt with bank carpet. it is 6ft under ground. not small, but not nearly as massive as Tejay's room, which I have visited many times. I have been quite fortunate as to have such industrial luminaries as,  Magico's Alon  Wolf, Albert Von Schwiekert, of Von Schweikert speaker company, Barry Ober formerly of JL audio Clement  Perry of stereo times and many others , all stating that my room is one of the finest they had ever heard. I have heard the regular ulfbherts on different occasions, and I do find quite a difference. First consider the differences in the materials, cloth vs metal. by  the very nature there is an undeniable difference. Just consider the molecular structure of metal and cloth. In my opinion,to deliberately attempt to get them to sound alike, let alone identical, would be a monumental scientific task. To my hearing, the beryllium is quite a bit faster and much more extended and cleaner, however both designs are quite musical. Herein comes preference , or possibly budget. I think Eric Alexander to be quite a genius in his abilities and accomplishments. I think him to be to quite astute. As to double the cost, go through excruciating design changes just to get the same results? I personally would not insult his intelligence. Both speakers, in my opinion are ground breakin, sonically competing way above their price point. As a matter of fact, I sold a $70,000.00 pair of Sonus Faber Lilium's and replaced them with the double impact se's. Why? because in my opinion the double impacts were sonically superior. the ulfbherts? another league. However I think wherever you go within the Tekton line  you win. just my opinion, I have no desire to bicker or fight. we are all entitled to our own opinion, this is simply mine. With due respect. Cheer's, Ezra 

I can't believe this thread is still going.  It has to be a testament to the achievement and popularity of Tekton speakers.  Just to amplify what Allen said about the Ulfbehrts, and I've heard Teajay's system and Ezra's system, the Ulfbehrts with the Beryllium drivers are a definite improvement over the regular Ulfbehrts.  I'm not wanting to get into or start an argument because Teajay is a friend, but in my opinion, it's not a subtle improvement.  Teajay's Ulfbehrts sound wonderful but the beryllium drivers take the Ulfbehrts up another level.  Seriously, if I owned Ulfbehrts and heard Ulfbehrts with the BE drivers, the only thing I could say, or think, would be DAMN!

The real reason for my joining in here, however, is to give Eric Alexander, and his guys, kudos for what they have accomplished.  I first got into the beryllium driver craze back in the mid-2000's with the Usher BE-10 and BE20 speakers.  The beryllium drivers in those speakers were very revealing and could go from sounding musical, with an open, detailed soundstage, to being bright and aggressive from one track to the next.  I felt this was consistent when listening to speakers with beryllium drivers.  Suffice it to say; I would not want a speaker with beryllium drivers in it.  I was pretty much concerned Ezra was going to be well in over his head and making a big mistake getting Ulfbehrts with beryllium drivers and kept urging him to reconsider or to please go to Teajay's home and listen to his Ulfbehrts before deciding.  Then again, maybe Ezra knows more than what he gets credit for.

The only thing that gave me pause was Eric.  I thought if he could pull off these designs using his arrays, maybe he can figure out how to deal with the aggressive sound of beryllium drivers.  Actually hearing the Ulfbehrt BEs was a total game-changer for me.  At no time was there any brightness, or aggressive sounding sonic artifacts.  No matter how loud Allen played music.  That was just a subtle dig at Allen because I actually played more music than he did and some of it was a little bit loud and some not loud at all.  The sense of the music sounding life-like with in-the-room authenticity, with macro and micro dynamics that were off the hook and bass that was outstanding.  To make it more interesting, all of this was done using a T+A integrated that I'm not really a fan of.  It's a nice enough piece of gear, just not my cup of tea, me being a tube fan.  I'll end with this; beryllium drivers in the Ulfbehrts made a significant improvement and takes the performance of that speaker to another level.  I have no idea how Eric did it, but he has accomplished something very special.

When are the Double Impact BE's going to be released? Anyone

Great discussion going...

The DI Be's don't exist. If and when it becomes possible I'll post about it being underway. 

I think both versions of the Ulf's have some great attributes to them. They are similar in many ways and somewhat different when evaluated in the realm of the very subtle - turn on the spidey senses.

Jon now has his Encore's (mini Ulf's) SN. 1 &2 and I thought they sounded pretty special prior to boxing them up. 

Eric Alexander - audio designer    

Please allow me to take one minute and change the topic to the new Stereophile Tekton Design Impact Monitor review; the first review of the patented array to include electro-acoustical measurements.

After enduring over 2 years worth of slanderous attacks surrounding the validity of this patented array, and enduring 100’s of comments like: "it doesn’t work", "Eric’s a buffoon", ’his design has serious comb-filtering issues", etc... we get, as near as I can tell, John Atkinson measuring the Tekton Design Impact Monitor, and producing the best ’horizontal averaged frequency response’ in the history of Stereophile. This is the bookshelf/stand mount loudspeaker category. I've gone through years of Stereophile reviews and have not seen a better averaged polar.

Using a bit of Herb’s vocabulary from the review... it might be time for a few people to kindly "put a sock in it".

With this said... I am sending out a giant thank you to all of the awesome and wonderful clients that have discerned we’re doing something special at Tekton Design.

Respectfully and sincerely,

Eric Alexander - audio designer