Tekton Brisance

@prof  Outrageous comment!  Years and years of R&D, multiple iterations of prototypes to test different drivers, crossover permutations and layouts, building materials, etc. etc. go into each and every new model before it's brought to production.

Sorry to have outraged you twoleftears ;-)

There are some companies who release new models very rarely, very carefully refining and refining, making sure they really made an advance, before releasing new models.  Which makes for a modest number of models they will sell.

Other companies pump out lots of different speakers, and *some* audiophiles worry somewhat about the spreading-oneself-too-thin factor, especially given the size of the typical audiophile speaker manufacturer.Tekton produces an enormous variety of speakers for such a small operation.  And we all know how many pixels have been spilled on Tekton issues in terms of quality control, customer satisfaction etc.

That's not to say the Tekton speakers aren't good.  I'd love to hear them.But it really stuck out the number of speaker designs being sold by Tekton and it seems like a new model comes out practically every few months

I just saw they have columns, 4-10. 45.5 inches tall. They will Stack And Test, SAT at 91 inches. Got me thinking... He'd probably cut just the baffle. The only cut, if you screw it up, you start over.
More holes, more sweating, more chance of a screw up, and a
Start over.. ;-) I'm getting old, no do overs...

 Who makes the drivers? Anybody know? No mention of driver manufacture?

The Brisance 18" is a PA driver. @ 100 db sensitivity, it looks like a 
PA driver..I've used LARGE PA in nearfield. HT.  A lot of bang for the buck. Problem back then was floor noise. Class d normally have ZERO, no noise.. We didn't have class ds, PAs could buzz a bit.. Me I don't watch TV or use HT, 1/2 hour news once a week, all I can take..

Regards

After doing more research, a distributed bass array seems like a much better idea than a single huge subwoofer. I’m surprised I have not seen anything about this before. The price of the audio kinesis swarm seems reasonable for four passive subwoofers and an amp. 

I’m with you prof! This looks like another unsolicited, gushing "seems too good to be true" announcement about a new speaker from Tekton. Add it to the growing list. This is not an "outrageous comment," just my opinion and I KNOW that I am entitled to it.