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Tekton Double Impacts

Anybody out there heard these??

I have dedicated audio room 14.5x20.5x9 ft.  Currently have Marantz Reference CD/Intergrated paired to Magnepan 1.7's with REL T-7 subs.  For the vast majority of music I love this system.  The only nit pick is that it is lacking/limited in covering say below 35 hz or so.  For the first time actually buzzed the panel with an organ sacd. Bummer.  Thought of upgrading subs to rythmicks but then I will need to high pass the 1.7's.  Really don't want to deal with that approach.

Enter the Double Impacts.  Many interesting things here.  Would certainly have a different set of strengths here.  Dynamics, claimed bottom octave coverage in one package, suspect a good match to current electronics.

I've read all the threads here so we do not need to rehash that.  Just wondering if others out there have FIRST HAND experience with these or other Tekton speakers

Thanks.
corelli
213runnin
914 posts
 
Ah yes, unfortunately one can still not criticize Tekton speakers in the Tekton thread.  That's kind of sad, really, the pack mentality that springs up.  They are not perfect speakers.  No speaker is, is that so hard to accept?  

The cabinets are square or rectangular boring boxes that come in various paint jobs of odd colors.  I find them outright ugly.  The drivers are of a budget off-the-shelf variety that will not last the 20-30 years + of the better designs.  Their frequency responses swing 6db+-.  Some like this, some don't.

Some embrace these choices and some don't.  It's not the end of the world, folks.
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millercarbon
12,531 posts
 
I know just how you feel. When I was a little kid and someone showed me just how childish my reasons were I took it personally and my feelings were hurt. Sometimes acting out of frustration I called these people names. Eventually I grew up, learned to separate my personal self from what are really just intellectual positions, and found not only are my feelings no longer hurt (as much- its always a little painful to be proven wrong) but it actually helped me to think more clearly.

Its a little late in the game to be still acting all adolescent but hey, you never know, you may yet mature into a grown up with a grown up mind. Maybe some day. I hope so. I really do.
mofojo
2,314 posts
 
Not sure where u are getting a +-6db frequency response? Stereophile measurements of the impact monitor was flat as a pancake. You must be thinking of your Totems because that is in fact about what they measure. 
213runnin
914 posts
 
Thanks for your kind wishes, MC, hopefully you will one day take your own advice on maturity.  

Mofo,  Sterophile measured the Enzo, and found a 6 db peak at 60-70 hz, and a 6 db dip at 2000 hz.  Since many of the Tekton models do not give the frequency range with the + or - db range, it stands to reason that many models have dips and peaks as the Enzo does.

All I'm saying is that Tekton does not make perfect speakers, and neither does anyone else.

Anyway, I'll bow out, back to regular Tekton posters.
mofojo
2,314 posts
 
Correct, 

I didnt read anyone saying that Tekton or anyone else made a perfect speaker ?? 
Why not go on every speaker thread and inform everyone the speakers being discussed are not perfect? I think everyone realizes that. 
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