Tekton versus Klipsch

Fritz Carrera B's performed splendidly with a Modwright 300B HEADPHONE AMP.  That should tell you all you need to know w.r.t. their driveability with the kinds of amps you're looking at.  They also sounded great.

Hi,

I had a pair of GoldenEar 2+s. I didn’t particularly like the tone of the midrange and the powered bass was a bit distracting and not totally integrated into the sound. I would never go with a speaker that has a built in powered woofer again. I sold them and bought a pair of Tekton Electron SEs that are similar to the DIs but a bit shorter.

All in all, I do like the Electrons - very balanced sound, and as many have commented, any change you make upstream will be clearly heard. Also, the build quality and finish is outstanding (I purchased the standard finish and it looks great). I'm still looking for the perfect amp to drive them with that fits my budget - presently have a Willsenton R8 with EL34s... not bad, but not what I'm looking for. Think I'll try an Elkit 300b amp kit next.

Josh

@dsper 

just call fritz talk to him, he is very accessible by phone (# on his website)

he won't bs you... really good guy, great speakers, no shortcuts

missioncoonery
"Facten....You argue the fact there are a lot of Tekton speakers for sale?..but my statement "they are junk,..poorly designed jinky cabinets with lousy bracing,big,butt ugly,loaded with cheap off the shelf drivers...all they do is go loud!.".....you say nothing about,lmao...I think that speaks for it self!!"


Well , missioncoonery, unlike some folks I don’t speak positively or negatively about equipment that I have never heard. Since I have never heard nor seen firsthand any Tekton speakers I am not in a position to contradict nor support your commentary on them. However, just looking at the listings I could comments about your exaggeration how there are  "tons for sale" ; 6 do not make a ton.

@dsper

I heard the Fritz Carerra also off the flea powered tube amp and was amazed at the results. That was in a typical size hotel room. I was ready to buy if I could justify another pair of 4 figure speakers which I could not at the time. Maybe someday still.... THese are not very efficient speakers but look at Fritz website and see how the crossover is designed to provide a very smooth and easy load which helps smaller amps to overachieve compared to the alternatives. I would expect them to go loud enough for most listeners off a decent size and quality tube amp. You could email fritz and get more details. I have inquired in the past and he was very responsive.

Klipsch are quite a bit more efficient in general and I would expect will go louder BUT probably not as easy a load as Fritz from what I have read, so exact sound might vary more amp to amp as they interact with varying load at various frequencies.

On paper, Tekton is somewhat more efficient but I’ve read with at least one monitor model the efficiency may be overstated (not uncommon) and from what I have read typically not a hard load on the grand scale of things but not the easiest either. Fritz in fact may own that title, along with a few others I know of, like Daedelus.