Zu Omen or Tekton Lore

Floosh, How would rolling different amps change the abilitys or voicing of the speakers.An amplifier at it's best game just sends a louder signal identical match from the source with out any additional information.
If the source is great, or it sucks the amp should only send it along a some what louder.After that the voicing and limits of the speakers will affect the sonic end of the chain.

This is why I roll with laughter when people try to make up for a major deficiency by changing interconnects,speaker cables and even tubes to some degree.You can't seriously make more than a 1% difference with with any cable unless one is defective,even tubes make a very subtle difference.

The best way to address the problem is to isolate the problem componate and either fix it,up grade it or replace it. But you can't mask it.

A testament to how well the Lores disappear...

I just had a friend over (someone who doesn't know an amplifier from a Walkman), and she was sitting in my sweetspot listening to jazz and asked, "where's the center speaker?" She wouldn't believe me that the music was coming from the Lores. And it's true--I'm listening to Jackie McLean and Kenny Dorham right now, and even though my listening position forms an equilateral triangle with the speakers, the music is coming from straight ahead of me. Someone earlier in this thread described the Lores' ability to image as erie, and now I see why.

Thanks for the advice everyone gave me on speaker positioning. It really came in handy when the Lores arrived this weekend. Happy listening...

Goraman, I don't even have the speakers yet, I never said there was a problem. I simply asked if others were finding characteristics they were trying to enhance or tone down.

It was primary related to DACs, as I was debating whether to go with a high clarity/resolving DAC like the Bifrost, or a perhaps something smoother sounding like a TubeDac-11. I went with the Bifrost.

And, FWIW, I really don't care about cables as dear ones are out of my budget at the moment anyway. I was merely fishing for people to describe their own perceived strengths and weaknesses of the Lores.

Truth be told, I'm just overanxious for them to arrive...

I'm quite interested in trying the new Red Wine Audio Signature 15 - it might be the best of both worlds and would save me from focusing next on cleaning up power to amp/preamp, allowing me to focus on cleaning up the power on my source.

I've heard good things about that amp, including from Eric himself.

for those that have ordered tekton speakers from their website, how long did it take to receive them? i placed an order on March 1st and Eric said they would ship in 5-10 days. then 2 days ago he says they will ship in 5-7 days.