Tekton Design Moab


Ordered a pair just now. In Dark Gray, to which Tammy immediately said, "Oh the Charcoal is beautiful!" Charcoal sounds better than Dark Gray (even though we are talking about the same color!) so Charcoal it is!  

My beloved Talon Khorus do still sound awfully good. It will be interesting to see how the Moabs stock out of the box compare with these tweaked and modded warhorses. Both the strength, and the weakness, of the Khorus is using the 10" woofer to cover so much midrange. Its a strength because it makes for a very smooth and cohesive sound. But its a weakness because its asking a lot of such a large driver to go so high. Talon makes up for it with their isobaric design. Mounted inside and directly behind the woofer is another identical driver facing the opposite direction. The idea is this relieves the front facing driver of having to compress the air inside the cabinet. This does allow for a much faster response, and is a big reason for the wonderful music the Khorus produces. 

I have a feeling however it is no match for Eric Alexander's ultra-low mass driver array solution. Only one way to know for sure. So we will just have to see!  

 https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/8367 
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Miller, I hope you love them! What will you drive them with? Not sure where you live but they will make sheltering in place like we still have in Illinois much more palatable! As you know they are a double Perfect Set which is also a great speaker (and also large for about 2K.) You must understand that  Moabs are really big full size speaker for most humans! The Ulfs are like having a pair of  Washington Monuments in your house!
Bob
Glad you are enjoying them. As I said before they are double Perfect SETs. For about $2k, the Perfect SET is a ridiculously good speaker. The Perfect SET is a very large speaker in its own right! Of course we occupy a different place in this world with these huge speakers (by the way I have never owned Tecktons but have heard them at the Oracle’s house (Teajay!) 
MC, I am thrilled you love the speakers!! I thought they sounded great at Teajay’s for ridiculous money. The other speaker that many should also consider is the Perfect SET which is 1/2 a Moab but still a very large speaker. It is around 2K and works with flea powered amps. It is crazy good for 2K. Teajay uses those for his upstairs system. While the Ulfs are a monolith the Moabs are still gigantic!

The wiring discussion reminds me of the Supratek preamp wiring controversy. That preamp is still a contender even with its Spaghetti wiring. Secondly, Teckton obviously value engineers these speakers to give the highest sound per dollar. It reminds me of the Magnepan crowd who like to take fuses out and change crossovers, use different wiring, etc. They could make the Magnepans better at a far higher cost but far fewer would buy them. There is no doubt that someone like Grannyring (who if I recall also had Suprateks) could modify these for higher performance but at a different price structure if he was a manufacturer.

Tvad, while I couldn’t read your post it is good to see you around these forums again!