Tekton would be better served if the owner were never allowed to interact with the public in any way.
my own experience with Tekton Design
Extremely disappointed with the Dynaudio Contour 60s I bought 4 years ago, after owning for 2 years a wonderful pair of old Dynaudio Contour 3.3s ( poor fool, I thought I was upgrading), I decided to ditch the Dynaudios for something different. So, for the last 2 years, I have been one of the few Tekton Moab owners in Europe, I think. Already the first impression of the Moabs was very positive. I was still not 100 percent satisfied, but I was already much more satisfied than I was with the Contour 60s. After a few months I realized that something was wrong, and after some measurements that I shared with Eric (the owner and designer of Tekton) it was clear that one of the beryllium tweeters was slightly less performing than the other. Probably a problem caused by transportation from the United States to Europe. In any case I experienced in Eric great support, attention and kindness. Eric sent me a replacement tweeter that I personally assembled with very little effort in less than 10 minutes.
And then wow! It was really a change from day to night. At first I didn't believe that a 15% less tweeter efficiency could make such a huge difference in presentation. But I had to believe it. I listen mostly to classical, jazz, and ethnic recordings, so for me the most important characteristics of a speaker are timbre quality and soundstage accuracy. The Moabs offer all this naturally, effortlessly. I have no intention of upgrading to anything else. Thanks for everything Eric!
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@deep_333: Yes, all else being equal, lower moving mass in a driver is a positive attribute, which is why I suggested an electrostatic. Or a planar-magnetic, for that matter. I own both. The point I was trying to make (perhaps unsuccessfully) is that the weight of a, say, string on a musical instrument is not necessarily related to the sound it makes. A 440Hz tone may be made by a very light musical instrument, or a very heavy one. Reproducing a 440Hz tone is just that, regardless of the weight of the object producing that 440Hz tone. Relating a 1/3 gram violin string to a driver whose moving mass is also 1/3 gram is a gross over-simplification. The moving mass of a driver is not the only factor that influences the "speed" of the driver. There is also motor (magnet) strength, and it is the mass-to-motor strength relationship that determines the speed of a driver. A high mass cone driven by a huge motor can be faster than a lighter mass cone driven by a smaller motor. Where’s Richard Vandersteen when you need him? 😉
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@bdp24 yes, i agree there are other variables that play into a driver's impulse response measurement. (Let us bundle them all for discussion purposes). Let Richard drink his coffee and relax instead 😁
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