Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions

haha harass away! Curious if he releases any teasers. 

Wonder what the 2112 will turn out to be. Something like the 1812 given the same naming?

I did reach out on the Tekton Owners Group. Its a great resource with more photos and personal input which is super helpful given the inability to see/hear many of these speakers in person. Unfortunately I don't have a FB account at present time so I'm borrowing an account to pester people for their impressions. 

I reckon either speaker are reasonable deals presently. Though I bet Eric and company are swamped with orders at present time. 

That being said, I waited about 9 months for my double impacts 3.5 years ago. 

what i's like to see is a mini-ulfberht, with the moab's tweeters and woofers, and the encore's two 7" mid-bass drivers between the woofer and tweeter array, like in the ulfberht's, which use four of the 7" drivers.  maybe, too close in size/cost?  or at least a mini ulfberht w/the 10" woofers of the encore, instead of the 12" woofers.  i do believe someone custom ordered a pair of the encores that way, w/the woofers top-n-bottom, instead of both at the bottom.  i'd definitely want the encores that way, were i to order a pair...

doug s.

@sedond 
can you, or anyone explain to me the benefit from having the woofers in the top to bottom orientation compared to the Encore in the double on the bottom?

Another random question, but are the tweeters for the Encore, Moab, and Uf all the same? just spaced differently apart in the Encore. 

Or does the Encore use different tweeters than the Moab/Uf?

whacky - the benefit of having the woofers high & low, as opposed to having both at the floor, is more even room loading of the bass. different locations of the bass drivers means low-end standing waves are more evenly spread out in the room, with a smoother in-room response.

it does appear that the tweeters are a bit different in the encores than in the moabs and the ulfberhts; i'm also curious about this. it could be just the tweeter's surround and spacing is different, but maybe not?  and what does the different spacing achieve in one vs the other?

doug s.

@sedond @whacky   I always thought the woofers were simply placed on the bottom of Encores so that the treble tweeter height would be ideal. If he located the woofer and the midbass driver beneath it it push the entire array down considerably.  The only way around it would be to make the speaker taller which wouldn't make it a mini Ulfberht, which was the intention.

Regarding the tweeter.  He uses a very good Wavcor tweeter that retails for $95 on Parts Express, so yeah that's $3000 in tweeters in the Encores, alone, but I'm sure Eric gets quantity discounts 😁 because he uses so many tweeters. I do not know what tweeter he's using in the Moabs, but I would have to think he's using a more practical priced driver to reach the lower overall price point. The Ulfberhts tweeters are likely even nicer than the Encore tweeters, but I don't know what model he's using in there. I doubt the amount of mounting space between the tweeters is germane to sound quality, he just used the Wavcor tweeter because it was a very good driver for this application at the price point for the speaker. No other manufacturer gives you over 50% of your money in speaker drivers alone and thats not even including the crossover parts, cabinet, paint, labor, shipping, and a reasonable profit margin. Most dealers make 40%-50% profit on highend speakers and high end speaker manufacturers multiply their raw costs by ~500% to reach their pricing.  Tektons are a steal, but you all already know that and I digress. 😊