Tekton tweeter design

Hey Tonykay :

You say you are "...neither a fan boy nor a detractor of Tekton," yet you are the originator of this thread and the most frequent responder.

I have no financial interest in Tekton or any other. I make my own speakers, and like to talk technology.  If you'd like to build my speakers, the design is free and here:


https://speakermakersjourney.blogspot.com/2017/12/snr-1-two-way-high-end-diy-monitor.html

Please don’t tell me that you are just an enthusiastic audiophile trying to spread the gospel of Tekton because they give you goosebumps. 

I haven't actually heard Tektons! :) 



My point to this thread was there were some Tekton threads about the tweeter array which weren't rooted in very good speaker/acoustics theory, so I thought I'd point A'goners to some really good analysis by someone I admire over at the DIYaudio thread.  My hope is for armchair speaker critics to see how Patrick deconstructs them and compares them to other types of arrays.


As I've said before, there's good and bad points of the Tekton designs, but the array is innovative and worth discussing more accurately.

Best,
E

jetter,

erik did a good job of explaining himself, but I'm sure he appreciates your leaping to his defense. I really have no issue with erik, I'm just tired of these random and all too frequent Tekton threads.

tonykay…..Erik is a nicer person than I am.

In my world its not ok to make-up insinuations about someone when you haven't bothered to invest the time to know their interests. That's whether or not you are tired of Tekton threads.

I cracks me up when someone has a problem with a Tekton post. I have the double Impacts and enjoy them with my Parasound equipment, I think they do a nice job of reproducing my Tidal selections. I watch these posts go from something informative to another Tekton bashing session and I wonder why you can’t just keep on reading and keep your opinions to yourself. I don’t comment on many things that I may not agree with because I’m sure you guys don’t give a crap about what I think and I’m good with that. There’s an old saying that if you don’t have something nice to say, keep your comments to yourself, why is that so hard?

erik

I am not sure how you could possibly assume that a large number of tweeters is going to narrow the dispersion….I was watching a nice story about how they were able to photograph a black hole . With telescopes in Antartica, Chile and a number of other countries. They had to focus the incoming radiation….well they used extremely sophisticated devices to accomplish that feat. Not sure a bunch of tweeters is going to focus quite that well.

I do like the " box fee " sound of ESL's but to my ears the focus seems to move around. An analogy would be watching a 3D movie, a good 3D movie. Not quite real and a little shaky. The attraction for most is the unboxed sound and not the " pin point " imaging.

Not sure how you might conclude that the performance of each tweeter might "best" that of much more high end tweeters.