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Stereophile review of the $30,000 tekton speakers

We have had many discussions/arguments over tekton speakers in the past, mainly involving a couple posters who thought their $4000 tektons sounded better than the highest price Wilson’s and other high budget speakers.

In the latest Stereophile magazine, they did a review of the $30,000 tekton’s. In this Steteophile issue, they rate these $30,000 tekton’s as class B. When you look at the other speakers that are in the class B section, you will notice most of these speakers range in price from $5000-$8000. So it looks like you have to spend $30,000 on a pair of tekton’s to equal a pair of $5000 Klipsch Forte IV’s sound quality. 
If I compare these $30,000 class B tekton’s, to some of the class A speakers, there are some class A speakers for 1/2 the price (Dutch & Dutch 8C, Goldenear triton reference), or other class A speakers that are cheaper (Magico A5, Kef blade 2).

 

 

p05129
p05129 OP
501 posts
 

“Like anything in life, value diminishes as you go up the ladder.”

You must not have heard any good speakers. I can list numerous speakers in the $3k-$10k range that would blow away the double impacts.

I suggest that you attend a few good audio shows that have good systems starting with a few grand and work your way up to the $250-$500k systems and then tell me if there isn’t a huge difference in sound quality. I have speakers in the high 5 digit range and there are some very good speakers in the low 6 digit range that are better.

corelli
988 posts
 

That's right--never heard a good speaker.  My reference is live music--not so sure I need to a good audio show and "work my way up to $250-500k speakers".

Love it when terms like "blow away" are used.  Totally worthless and unqualified.

Value is a relative term.  A $250k speaker would never have value in my world.  But if you want to blow the bucks be my guest.

audition__audio
1,494 posts
 

Once again a member makes a universal judgement about value based on his perspective. Doesnt help your case when you use "my world" and "blow the bucks" in the same paragraph. You admit that you see no need to listen to six figure speakers so you dont know and should remain silent. The ideal Tekton customer I should think.

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jayctoy
4,081 posts
 

Po5129 kindly please let me know what speakers below 3k that are better than DI Tekton. I collect speakers. I also attend CES annually before axpona . I do attend axpona yearly as well. Disclaimer I own Tekton monitor impact and ps 12 Tekton.

facten
2,880 posts
 

@audioman58  I have no skin in this game, I don't own and will never own Tekton speakers but I am curious as to what your  factual basis of these 2 statements are:

"Payed  for reviews."

"Now average sales at best"

Thanks in advance for providing the detailed factual specifics

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