Those that upgraded from Tekton


What did you move on to?

 

I think it’s time I move on from my DIs, I really like how they sound but they are just too big and opposing for my room. Would be interested in something front ported as I have a room that is wide but not deep (speakers are 8 ft away from listening position and only 1 ft from back wall).

Was thinking Cornwall IV maybe or something from Salk but those might not be an upgrade from the DI.

Up to $5k budget and prefer used. Powered by Line Magnetic LM805i

And please don’t come here just to talk crap about Tekton……….

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I own a pair of Moabs with berillium tweeter. Compared to the 10K dynaudio contour 60 i owned previously the moabs are good upgrade. The moabs are much more revealing, wider soundstage and timbre is preciser. But the Moabs are not as good as the dynaudio contour 3.3 i owned 3 years ago, just before the contour 60. The contour 3.3 have two fundamental abilities. They nail timbre. You have constantly the feeling of the matericity of the instrument, brass, wood, strings and so on. Second they nail the soundstage in a way that the space entrolls in front of you like a map. This means that with a precise timbre and a precise soundstage you get immediately lost in the music. The only defect of the contours 3.3 is a lack of texture in the lower areas. The contour 60 fail both in timbre and in soundstage, and the moabs do better in both but do not have the magic of the contour 3.3. The moabs are better as the contour 3.3 only in representing the piano. So i'm looking to for an upgrade. But it seems to me that to get back the magic of the contour 3.3 i have to spend about 50k so probably i will go back to the contour 3.3. 

Preciser?? Matericity?? Entrolls??!

If we're going to make up words, my word is 'scrumtrulescent'.

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@daros,

why not look for some Dynaudio C2 or C4 ? Old fun sound should be an upgrade to the 3.3 I would think. Heard the S1.4 and the C1. Thought the C1 was much better. Never heard the older older stuff. 

Hmm won’t let me edit. Don’t know even how that came out like that! Meant to say older Confidence should be an upgrade to the 3.3 if you don’t like the new direction. Dynaudio is going. 
 

Also very interesting you prefer the old 3.3s to the Moabs.