Tekton Double Impacts

@triumphtt02 - Congrats on ordering the Double Impacts! I’ve enjoyed mine thoroughly for the past year. Many hours of happy listening.

@rpw The Encores are very new, so you may run into a dearth of people responding only because not many people have them yet. I was the first one to get a pair and there are a few more orders placed for them that I know of. I can only say I have no regrets upgrading to the Encores and I’ve been listening to them for many hours during the day. I hardly watch any TV now. They were totally worth it. Good luck.

Triumphtt02,
Congratulations on acquiring the Double Impacts and it's good to read that you're so happy with them. I believe that you'll enjoy an increase in sound quality using the 8 watt Nelson Pass class A amplifier.  Yes, fewer watts than your current amplifier  but IMO increased watt quality. 
Charles 

I picked up the new Micro ZOTL Preamp today. I am running it with the LTA UltraLinear 20watt amp, with a Modwright Oppo 205 and of course my Tekton DI SE. I was running the UL direct from source without a pre for many months now, but now even after only an hour of play time I can say this is the best I’ve ever heard this system sound. I’m just sitting here in awe of this sound. Every sweet aspect of the UL has increased such as sound stage, clarity, space between notes, even the bass has more impact. Just wow.

I thought I would get a few hours on the new preamp before chiming in but this is just too good. If anyone is thinking about purchasing a UL, you must consider this preamp. They are a match made in heaven.

I had a chance to visit a local Audiophile with an Uber $$ system recently. I salivated over his David Berning 75K mono blocks and he had Magico speakers with an incredible dedicated listening room. I think my DI SE and LTA amps can compete now. Just sayin.

@triumphtt02
Glad this all worked out so well for you. Your experience parallels many of ours where we did our research and then took that leap of faith and were rewarded for doing so. This underscores the issue brought up just recently on the previous page. The feedback and reviews on these speakers has been so consistent that it is, IMO, easy to just order up and let the fun begin. Some, I know, really feel the need to audition first. But if that is not possible, the bigger risk is in missing out on a great speaker, not returning them!

Herb Reichert's / Stereophile’s review of the Tekton Design Impact Monitor is now up on their site:

https://www.stereophile.com/content/tekton-design-impact-monitor-loudspeaker

This just further proves what @shadorne and I said about the design all along.

"The tweeter array becomes gradually more directional as the frequency increases [above 'the cursor position at 3.8kHz.']"

"In the vertical plane (fig.5), the use of two woofers spaced relatively far apart leads to major cancellations in the midrange above and below the response on the central tweeter axis, which again appears as a straight line. The Impact Monitor's vertical radiation pattern suggests that the speaker needs to be listened to within a narrow window centered on the central tweeter axis if the midrange balance is not to sound colored."