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

I am the very happy owner of the first pair of New Tekton Design Encores and I thought I would create this thread to answer any questions anyone might have regarding the Encore speakers, room considerations, and associated equipment. If you’ve order your pair already, please chime in. I really want to hear what other people’s experience are with these unbelievable speakers.

I drive my Encores with both an Art Audio Diavolo SET 300b Tube Amplifier with 8wpc and I switch in my 700w Nord One-Up SE Monoblocks for non-critical listening and some big pieces of music that benefit from the extra power.



  • Made under U.S. Patent 9247339 with multiple new patents pending
  • Proprietary loudspeaker design
  • Ultra-linear frequency response with ±.5dB deviation from 70Hz-20kHz
  • One single crossover element placed within the tweeter path
  • Ultra-linear, entirely time-invariant minimum-phase mid-range section
  • Proprietary patent pending 15 dome radiating hybrid MTM high frequency array
  • Two 6.5" mid-bass patented ’overtone & harmonic’ transducers
  • Dual 11" low-frequency transducers
  • ​96dB 2.83V@1m sensitivity
  • 4 Ohm design for optimum performance
  • 20Hz-30kHz frequency response​
  • Dimensions Width 13.25" x Depth 15.25" x Height 62"
  • 800 Watt power handling
  • Weight 175 lbs​
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@stereo5 
Made in America Encores against Communist China Tritons? Yer kiddin', right?
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jcarcopo OP
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@stereo5  Great, thanks for stopping by. Many people who have owned speakers costing many times the price of the Tektons, own Tektons.  I am one of them.  Reviewers have said as much as well, but I understand since you haven't heard them.  I can only compare them to the dozens of brands I have heard while selling high end, visiting trade shows, or spending time at fellow audiophile's homes over the last couple of decades. If you enjoy your Tritons that's great. 
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jcarcopo - i suspect the tweeters are the same in all these speakers, except for the waveguides being different.  the encore's and the di/se's seem to have the same waveguide, while the ulfberht's and the moab's have the same waveguide.  and, while i'm not sure, i also suspect the spacing has to do with the adjacent woofers/midwoofers.  the smaller waveguide tweeters are adjacent to the single midwoofers, while the tweeters w/the larger waveguides are adjacent to either 12" woofers, or a pair of midwoofers. (or 10"/12"/15" woofers of the perfect set's).

and yes, if you were to build the encores w/a woofer at the top, you would want a taller cabinet; i believe the custom encore i heard about was installed in a cabinet similar to the taller moab cabinet.  of course, you could always raise the cabinets.  years ago, i owned a pair of coincident victory's, (great speakers, btw), and they sounded better when raised ~14" - which then had them mimicking the super-victory's but w/o the additional side-firing woofers.  raising those speakers considerably enhanced the soundstaging, and i'm certain the same would apply to encores w/standard 62" cabinets, but one woofer at the top of the array...  if my calcs are correct, the center of the present encore's middle tweeter is ~44.6" above the floor, or a mite higher if the speaker has spikes or feet.
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stereo5
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@jcarcopo,

Touchy, aren’t we?  All I said was I bet they compare to my speakers, I do not care who gives up expensive Speakers for the Tektons.  I owned a pair of Pendragons 5 years ago, they sounded like crap and Eric gave me a hard time when I wanted to return them after owning them for 10 days. They were also very cheaply made and the shipping cartons were a joke as both new speakers arrived damaged with no apparent marks on the shipping cartons.  My made in China speakers had no problems. 
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