Tekton tweeter design


Hi everyone,

I found a cool, fact filled thread with some smart DIY'ers over at the DIYAudio forum about how the Tekton tweeter arrays are wired and how they work.

Kind of interesting in how they were innovative in some ways, and in others did some questionable things. Reminds me of Infinity, who developed crazy crossovers in large part by ear, which we can now really improve upon. Still good sounding, but in hind sight we wonder about them.


https://www.diyaudio.com/forums/multi-way/336743-help-understanding-tekton-tweeter-array-schematic.h...


Please, keep your flames over here on Audiogon. :)
erik_squires
Anyway, there’s not much more useful stuff I can add here. As I’ve repeatedly stated, my goal here was narrowly focused: I wanted to discuss the innovation in the tweeter array accurately and point those who are curious to more resources to see how they can be analyzed.


It was never to sell Tekton, or to nit pick their aesthetics or every electro-acoustic design choice.


As I’ve said before, the tweeter/mid array is curious and innovative, and in that sense should be pretty exciting to speaker design geeks in the same way planar speakers and large speaker arrays like the IRS or McIntosh brands have used in the past. Unless you are named "kosst" in which case "comb filtering" reflexively exits your mouth with little idea what you mean.


For certain, cost, aesthetics, pleasure and value are not things I want to rehash here as all that gets us far afield from the "hey, they are doing something cool and interesting" discussion I wanted to have. Perhaps one of the few, truly innovative things I've seen come down the speaker design pipe in a long time.

Best,
E
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First a disclaimer.. I don’t own currently Tekton and I haven’t heard the array. 


I like what Eric has done for two reasons. 


1.  He designed something he knew from theory might be problematic.  Then he tweaked it and probably demo’d it for people and then retweaked and re demo’d over and over... and finally brought the product to market.  The market listened to it... they measured it... and a lot said we like it... and many bought it... and I’m certain that further tweaking is under way that will bring forward more improvements. 


2.  Often times, it takes challenging science and conventional thinking to advance the state of the art. 


If if you go back and look at Tekton circa 2013 and prior... really nice wood grains were an option... but Be and ribbons were not. Over the next 5 years, I suspect he got a lot of calls asking for painted options, for Be, for a ribbon option and he responded... and the market responded by saying we like what we hear. 


As as I see it, he is helping to change the market and grow the market with his actions... and we all benefit.... why?  Because KEF, Jim Salk, Spatial, et al are doing the same thing... pushing the conventional boundaries and thinking. 


Final thought... I owned Tekton Lores and loved them. I own Salk Veracity STs now and love them also. Both of these speakers are a lot more musical than what I owned 20+ years ago. So my message to everyone making audio products is ignore imposed constraints and conventional thinking when possible and keep pushing the boundaries. 
mastercraft1990,

You wrote, “...I’m sure you guys don’t give a crap about what I think.”

Well now see, there is something we can agree on!
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