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Tekton Design's new THE PERFECT SET equals "goosebumps time"

Just got in house for review for hometheaterreview.com Tekton Design’s new, The Perfect SET, which is close to 100dB efficient and never dips below 8 ohms, which Eric built to be used with SET "flea watt" amplifiers. It is a front ported design using a 12 inch woofer and his patented array of small transducers that function as a midrange driver with a single tweeter in the middle. I set them up in a system with a great 2A3 SET amplifier and found them so superlative I did not stop listening for over five hours! Taking about "goosebump time" the music was so beautiful that
I lost track of time.

These speakers have all the virtues of the other Tekton speakers, speed, utter transparency/micro-details, great soundstaging, and that special "aliveness" that I experience when I listen to my Ulf’s. What really amazed me was what the Perfect SET was delivering on the bottom end frequencies, subterrainian/taut powerful bass, that was shaking the room, all coming from at most 2.5 to 3 watts.

If you love SET amplifiers this speaker is a match made in heaven, and remember this pair just arrived and is not totally burnt in yet.

teajay
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jtcf
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@listener111  to answer your question I ended up with the monitors because I was worried about wrestling around heavier speakers and having to ship them back if I didn't like them.Ha,ha,ha,ha!!I love them and they aren't going anywhere:)In hindsight a floorstander would have been easier to position with no stands to fuss with.

@dbass in my LTA I'm just starting to experiment with tube rolling.Last week I dropped in Sylvania AT7GTA black plates and am very pleased.The sound remains clean and clear but the musicians are more palpable now.There's more *meat on the bones*.Next up I'll try something new for the output tubes.I'll keep you posted with the good/bad results.
dbass
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@jtcf  Thanks I will be very interested in what you hear.  
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@dbass the new 6SN7 are ElectroHarmonix gold pin(new production).I've read that a lot of folks describe them as*sweet and organic* plus they are inexpensive.Unfortunately I'm not hearing it:( I've only got about ten hours on them and they don't sound bad per say,just not what I was expecting.What I hear is clean,clear,detailed,very good high frequencies,very good bass,emphasizing transients and dynamics.Too dry and solid state of a presentation in my system for my taste though.I think they would be perfect in a more laid back system that needed livening up.Tomorrow I will try the Sylvania *bad boys* and see how that goes:)
The Sylvania 12AT7s along with the stock 6SN7 Tung Sols sound pretty darn good but ya know....searching for perfection.Those Telefunkens are sooo expensive and I can't quite talk myself into them yet:)
david_ten
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@jayctoy   Do you have further updates on your Tekton Design PS12s? I think you should have over 50 hours on the speakers by now (?). 
facten
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Don't have your amp but if you haven't done so you might want to try Sophia Electric 6SN7s , use them in my Modwright LS100 preamp, very nice sounding to my ears
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