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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I’ve been watching and contemplating a purchase.My room iis big with 16-17 vaulted ceilings with a stained beam and 2 ceiling fans.

 Large room, but these little Energy RC-70’s hold the fort well, but these Tekton speakers I know would bring 2-3X the pressure and sound.

 Using McCormack DNA-750s’ w 700W RMS @ 8Ohms, and over 1000W @ 4 Ohms.!

im sure these will drive the tekton to great sound!
david_ten-
How would it be impolite? Horses for courses.

Shalommorgan-
Millercarbon. What are your thoughts about Moabs with all BE tweeters, cost aside? I know the BE tweeter is an upgrade option.

Eric is a total speaker builder, by which I mean he’s willing to build pretty much what you want. That said his normal options for tweeter upgrades are one Be tweeter, or all tweeters Be. The expensive one on the site is all of them. Without auditioning I go like everything else by interpreting others comments, here there and everywhere. Those led me to believe I would not prefer the Be, not even just the single tweeter, not even at no additional cost. That’s just me. Not saying anything wrong with it, just its not something I want. What tiny sliver of doubt I may have had evaporated talking with teajay who again said nothing bad just helped confirm what I already was thinking.

Instead of Be my tweeters, all of them, will be upgraded to the tweeters used in the Ulf. Unlike the Be which is a big price bump even just for one these are about the price bump of one but for all. So only something like $20-30 per tweeter more. As I recall Eric said the difference is not obvious, but its there. Somewhere else along the line I heard him say his speakers get more refined and sophisticated as you go up the line. I simply put two and two together.
Using McCormack DNA-750s’ w 700W RMS @ 8Ohms, and over 1000W @ 4 Ohms.!

I’ll say. That is almost like having a 70 watt tube amp!!😉
Another congratulations, millercarbon!  Looking forward to your thoughts of them. After auditioning 15-20 speakers, I heard a pair of Pendragons at a friend’s place, and knew they were what I was searching for. I’ve owned them for over a year now, and have no desire to upgrade whatsoever. They’re great at reproducing all genres of music I’ve thrown at em too.