Tekton DI's or Klipsch Forte III

none of the above

Thomas & Stereo, as I remember from watching the review months ago, said that the reason it was not the speaker for him is because he likes an ultra resolving speaker, that he likes to hear the singers lips smack and to hear them breathe. He makes a point of bringing this up in his reviews and he indicates that this is his preference and not how music sounds "live".

That's what I got out of it as well. 

Tekton's approach of minimizing mass by using lots of low mass small tweeters to do the job of one high mass midrange sure sounds like a winner. Its the exact same idea with moving coil, and the even better fixed coil moving iron approach is even better due mainly to its greatly reduced moving mass.

Really want to get my ears on one but for now all the reviews sure have me hopeful. Listening to YouTube on ear phones or even a laptop turns out not to be the joke you might think it would be. Listening to Koetsu and Herron on YouTube helped me pull the trigger, and lo and behold heard the same sonic traits in my room I'd heard first on-line. Okay maybe I'm just an exceptionally talented listener. Right. As if. 

Go on line, listen to the reviews AND how they sound, I think you will find something of the character of the speaker even with all the room and mic and everything else still manages to get through. Especially if you listen to a few with Tekton, and a few with Klipsch, after a while you should be able to figure it out.

All the Tektons I've heard on-line are similar in that they all project an incredibly real and full and lifelike midrange. Dynamics and everything else just seems to come across as not just really dynamic, but dynamic in a very free and natural way that makes everything else seem to have a hard edge by comparison.

Some guys like the hard edge. Confuse it with detail, is my opinion. Whatever. Point is you always go and listen. For yourself. Can't, in person? Then, on-line.

Jetter,excellent advice, I'll get the headphones out and start my homework!

Millercarbon sounds really enthusiastic about Tekton, but I’ll beg to differ that you can get an accurate idea on how a speaker sounds with YouTube videos,  there’s just too many variables.

the only way to get an accurate picture is to have the speakers in your room with your gear.  Some like Tekton, some don’t, but you will never know until you try.  That’s why they offer an in home trial.