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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
passthedutchie
46 posts
 

it's super interesting that when you search "Tekton Moab" in the search bar of Stereophile, the review doesn't come up.

No, it isn't. Anyone will have the same experience with many, many search terms plugged into the Stereophile search bar. The search function on the site is profoundly broken. I know that's not as exciting as suggesting that there's some kind of conspiracy afoot, so...I'm sorry to disappoint.

 

 

 

 

davetheoilguy
146 posts
 

@passthedutchie 

A defective search is unlikely, as it is simply a widget of Google search you put into the website.  It can happen, though.  So you could be correct.

What is more common is someone tells the webmaster to have the search to disregard certain search results for whatever reason.  Amazon does this all the time with products or (more often) books it doesn’t want to promote or desires you to  go to a preferred product).

As someone who runs a company with a legal department, I don’t see a conspiracy.  I see a legal department or manager saying “this is trouble we don’t need and telling the webmaster to suppress the search results.

passthedutchie
46 posts
 

@davetheoilguy 

This is an unnecessary discussion, because you could have easily tested the matter for yourself...and in less time than it just took you to expand further on your misapprehensions.

Throw 10 or 20 varied search terms at the Stereophile website's query box and a good number of them will fail where plain old googling doesn't. Stereophile's search function is badly broken. It's been like that for years.

davetheoilguy
146 posts
 

@passthedutchie 

No, I can’t say I’ve had that experience on the website before and use it extensively.  Nor would that be consistent with how the typical software works.  It’s possible, if the website is set up such that text is intentionally not searchable by the crawlers for the search engines, but as far as I can tell it does not have that issue.

you have made an assertion that the stereophile website has a defective search engine.  That is possible, but the only evidence is your assertion.

audition__audio
1,476 posts
 

The search engine isnt the only thing broken at Stereophile.

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