Tekton Double Impacts

@evolvist  - I was never offered a 9 month trade up.  I wanted an upgraded speaker when I ordered the DIs, but nothing better existed at the time. So I had to wait patiently for many months while owning and enjoying my DIs before the Encore speakers could be made available to me to order the first pair. I waited 3 months after I gave Eric the money for him to work out the design when he gave me the green light to order them. I paid $8500 upfront and I didn't get to trade my DI speakers in towards a newer pair, so exactly...why should you be given some special arrangement? I sold my original DIs and it cost me $1000 to do so. 

You sure the speaker spikes weren't embedded in the Styrofoam? Mine were, both times.  When you first indicated to me you were trading in your loaner pair of DIs for Encores I was thinking to myself that doesn't make sense to me after so many months went by, but regardless, sorry things didn't work out and about your health problems, having suffered heart issues recently, I can commiserate. 

-Jonathan

I did trade my original DI’s for the DI SE. The deal went well and I am very happy with the DI SE. The sound is incredible.

evolvist, I am sorry to hear about your unfortunate situation with the DI/Encores. I know from your posts how much you were looking forward to the Encores.

@jcarcopo ...I think the moral of the story is, if you're going to make a deal, you honor that deal, and you especially don't attempt to screw over the customer.

There was several times that I felt like backing out of the deal, and I even told Tekton so, but at the end of the day I needed to stick by my word, even if I didn't care for the DIs, and even if the expenditure was more than I thought it would be. I owed that to myself and I owed that to Tekton.

From now on, though, I won't trust anybody. What's more, I certainly don't trust Tekton. Perhaps they should have never made that deal with me; nonetheless, they did...so I expected them to fulfill their end, as I did mine, not turning the speakers away at the dock, and certainly not to attempt to bilk me out of more cash by using their "policy" against me, while forming a double standard.

The point is, like I said before, if it can happen once, it can happen again. There are many other points I could bring up, and things that I know, but I won't do that.

I simply wanted to spread a word warning. Conflict happens in life, and people don't often see eye-to-eye, but hey, right is right, and wrong is wrong.

I was done dirty, and pretty wrong.

@evolvist

I think the moral of the story is...GET IT IN WRITING! Sorry for your issues with Tekton.

What puzzles me is, if the DI’s didn’t work, what made you think the Encores would? Maybe that’s why Tekton didn’t want to give you a return policy for the Encores?

The other thing I want to say is and I am sure some would disagree. I feel those speakers ( DI’s or Encores) are too big for your room. The Electrons to me are such an overlooked option as the tweeter is at a normal height and is still a very big speaker. It’s almost like a macho thing to do, to get the bigger speaker that is more talked about while ignoring the size of your room.