My Experience With Tekton


I know this is a polarizing discussion point and was thus hesitant to share unless I could keep it objective, helpful, and concise

I have no intention to be inflammatory, sway anyone’s current opinion or beliefs

I merely want to share information in two specific areas, my results of product performance and my experience with the manufacturer

 

Background and reference point

I replaced a pair of Revel F36. The F36 is the upper end of Revel’s lowest tier floorstanding speakers and retails for $2,000 MSRP per pair

Took approx. 45 mins to unbox, level and connect

Like for like drop-in replacement, same location on the floor as the F36s, the listening position did not change, identical electronics and cables

We’ve all got our preferences, biases, different levels of experience, etc; but share the common limitation that we just don’t know what we don’t know

I’ve not heard a pair of 30K speakers but expect to someday and envy those that own them

In my VERY limited understanding, it’s near impossible to pinpoint how any specific system change will behave and perform across the board, contingent on the variances in electronics, set up and room. These three items alone (electronics, setup and room) make me think that while similar in nature, but at a critical listening level, each combination is unique and a different snowflake or fingerprint

 

Listening results

Product delivers as advertised

Meets or exceeds every performance expectation I had hoped for

After approx. 5 hours of listening over 3 days I tried to characterize the sound. The first thought was neutral, but that was understating what I was hearing. I eventually landed on natural or real. The voices and the instruments sound VERY real to me. This is as close as I have come with my electronics, setup and room to sensing that someone is singing to me or that someone or an entire band is playing for me

To date, each song that I’ve played, is the best version of that song that I have heard in a playback, and I’ve listened to all of them 100s and 100s of times

Some of the improvement was by a small margin, but most songs, 65% conservatively speaking, by a vast margin – night and day, game changing stuff

Chet Baker didn’t sound like a presentation from 1958, it sounded as fresh and real as a new recording with the benefits of 60 years of technology advancements. Exile on Main Street didn’t sound like a home recording from 1972 it sounded like 2022 with many layers of percussion, keyboards, horns and background vocals

Is the sound of this $5,000 pair of speakers comparable to the sound of a $30,000 pair of speakers? I don’t know, as mentioned I’ve not heard a pair of $30,000 speakers.

What I do know is the $5,000 pair of speakers, simply put is the best my system has sounded by a wide margin

Again in summary, it sounds real, like someone is singing to me

 

Experience with the manufacturer

I had hemmed and hawed for 2 or 3 months before placing my order. One day the website mentioned a future price increase but until mmdd you could still order at the current price

I called and spoke with Tammy and told her I wanted to lock in on the current price point but wasn’t sure what product or configuration I wanted

She built an open-ended order with current pricing and told me to contact her when I knew what I wanted

With work travel and other commitments it took me 4 months to finalize which speaker, Moab, which upgrades, beryllium tweeters and Cardas connectors, and what color, white

I was never pressured to make up my mind or that my window for the lower costs was going to expire

Since I was the one dragging my feet, I offered multiple times to pay for the product

Not once did they hint or take me up on my offer to pay in advance

They did not bill me until the product shipped

Once I had made all the config decisions, the build and delivery were again, as advertised

Tammy mentioned a 4–6-week supply chain delay with beryllium, that arrived within her estimated timeframe

Once the beryllium arrived, she said she was waiting on cabinets, eta 5-7 days, followed by build and paint, and shipping approx. 10 days after she received the cabinets

Within 2 weeks Tammy emailed my owner’s manual, unpacking instructions and told me to expect a call from the freight company within the next week

Freight company contacted me on that Fri and scheduled delivery for the very next Mon, Aug 30

The boxes arrived scuffed and with multiple impact points that dented the packing material

There are no blemishes or damage to either speaker cabinet, the packing and packaging worked as designed

Upon unpacking, I didn’t experience a heavy smell of paint or wood, if I put my nose to the cabinet, I could smell fresh paint

The cabinet finish or construction does not appear inferior to anything else in my inventory, KEF, Revel, Klipsch, Paradigm, Polk, and Elac – permission in advance to laugh

Enjoy the journey and happy listening

Respectfully


stevewharton
If you take "entitled white men" out of that post, it hits it right on the mark. There of plenty of bitter men here belittling and bullying another member that enjoys his new speakers. One of them was clueless enough to ask why the OP hasn't been back. It is hard to believe anyone is that dense. 

So there is a lot of mention of Tekton speakers here. So what? Why is it such a big deal to some people that they have to reply negatively to every thread on them? These would be the same people that complain that the hobby is shrinking. SMH!
@csmgolf  Let me refresh your memory.

From @fsonicsmith 
09-07-2021 9:04pmI checked out this post out of boredom while away from home. The OP has only been posting since March of '20 and in his posts he more than once echos Miller Fluorocarbon's thoughts. And then there is this prior post which sound eerily reminiscent of the one above;
From @jjss49 
09-07-2021 10:37pm@fsonicsmith

good eye -- burner account... how sad, how low...
From @p01529
09-07-2021 11:25pmfsonicsmith-exactly, only 1 person writes like this.
From @three_easy_payments
09-07-2021 11:26pm@fsonicsmith My initial reaction was you were making a ludicrous unfounded connection. But I'm seeing another poster with an ID created very recently speaking now specifically to tweaks and alleged "snake oil" and sounding remarkably like MC. Watching the two (or one?) talk to each other is disturbing yet amusing. Hopefully I'm imagining this as no human would engage in such silliness. Right?




I just read every one of the OPs posts. Your conspiracy theory would make even the wildest Trump supporter blush (I am not one of them BTW). There have been several people here with multiple log ins, but I ain't buying the OP as one of them. You guys have let your distaste for MC cause you to create something that isn't there. Every member that you quoted has an axe to grind with MC. I have had my run-ins with him too, but there is no way that those dots connect.
Plus, you are working at driving new people away. You can go ahead and triple down, but I still think you are wrong. 
willgolf507 posts09-07-2021 8:38pm  I have experience in plus $30k speakers and I have the Tekton DI. Let me say this...for the money and for people on a budget you can not beat Tekton for value and sound. If my budget was $5k and under and I wanted a big sound, I would definitely consider Tekton. However, you simply can’t compare to a $30k speaker. My $30k speakers blow away the DI’s. Granted the DI’s aren’t MOAB’s but people need to stop saying these are as good as most high-end speakers.

Unfair post. The OP never said they sounded either as good or better than a $30K pair of speakers, He said he’s never HEARD $30K speakers but some day hopes to own some. That’s a huge difference from your argumentative post that YOUR $30K speakers will "blow away" the DI’s."

"People need to stop saying these are as good as most high-end speakers."

The OP never said that - YOU’RE the one saying that as a strawman for your argument. That’s one of the problems with this forum - people just make stuff up to argue - which is exactly what you’re doing. Why?

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