TEKTON IMPACT MONITORS

I just deleted my last post, because after thinking about it and talking it over with a friend, we both came back to the strong opinion that it's more likely that clipping caused high frequency distortion and that clipping is what tore your driver/s up.

Not so much over driving the drivers, sending them heavily distorted signals that were not musical in waveform. Brutal and sharp electrical signals can be generated during clipping, certainly with a reasonably high powered amp, and less attenuated into a high sensitivity circuit will do damage easily.

An analogy to what clipping is like for a driver, might look like revving an engine hard, and dropping the clutch violently, then hitting the brakes and doing it over again in rapid succession.

It doesn't need to be high frequency initial signal to produce high frequency distortion, with abrupt polarity swings.

Believe it or not, often amplifiers pushed with less current potential can be the cause of more damage. It may seen counter intuitive, but it's the limits of the output, that can't complete the soft upper and lower roll of the sine waves, by simply truncating them (clipping) that produce sharp and fast changes in the signal to the motor assembly (electro magnet).

Sorry to have kinda jumped into your thread about the MC Moab weekend, it was still about Tektons though. I hope you don't burn anything else up, that's not fun at all.

Rixthetricker you are fine, no need to say sorry, At times even on discussion here we get excited .At times that’s what gives life to the thread.

@jayctoy - seems to me you're a good sport, good to interact with you.
In other threads, I have mentioned the possible pitfalls of swapping out drivers into a speaker and how it may (more often than not) disrupt the linearity of the output.

Often a good design will use crossover frequencies that take into account the frequency response of the drivers themself, using strengths to hide weaknesses and breakout in response. It is truly an art to match speakers (drivers), as all are compromised in some way or nother, and to engineer the very best out of them.

In fact, it's often not the best stand alone qualities of the drivers, but the unique pairing that happen to resolve well, where blending the responses with such finesse where they actually sound as though there is no seam between them in the soundfield - that's real talent.

By swapping out a driver, perhaps an even better quality driver (sound quality, not build) it can upset the frequency response and the cohesive response of the voicing of the speaker. It's dependent on the design of course, a lesser design is less prone to losing quality sound, and well, heck there's nothing to say you can't just get lucky!

I have to believe the best upgrade would be of the crossover to higher quality components. I've experienced that making a significant difference in performance. #2 would be a cabinet upgrade. Not because there is a problem with what tekton does because there isn't. But there is generally room for improvement on any mfg cabinet. But you also need to be careful there. The cabinet design and sound absorption configuration can actually degrade the sound if not done correctly. I've considered Erics offer to me to do a Be upgrade to my Ulfs and shied away from it because I like the sound of the soft domes. Sometimes you can go one bridge too far. But I have reworked a set of Lores with new cabinets I constructed and component upgrades. They sound very, very good. So I've actually taken this path.