Tekton Design MOAB


$4500.
Moab as spelled on their site after a place in Utah but the military reference to the mother of all boxes cannot go unmentioned.
Next giant killer? Anyone heard them?

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Showing 4 responses by mijostyn

No reason to. It's all about cramming a bunch of cheap drivers into a cheap box to make a lot of money. Every day we try a new tweeter pattern to see if by accident we might get it right. In this one they are trying a quasi D'Appolito Array using 7 tweeters to form one midrange driver on either side of another tweeter. I'm sure they go loud. Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.
MOAB not doubt. I've been called a bunch of things in my life but never an empty head. roxy54 surely you can come up with something more creative than that. 
It does not take a genius to know that a Ford mini van is not going to handle as well as a Porsche 911. And, you can tell that just by looking at them!  On the other hand you can not carry all that much in a 911. All those cheap drivers will go loud and if loud is all you want you are in business. You will never make a speaker like that image correctly because all the information above 10 K is hopelessly confused. To many individual drivers at work out of phase with your head. Square enclosures are the easiest and cheapest to build. You can get equal power handling and much better imaging with fewer much more expensive drivers. How many great speakers use one tweeter? Wilson, Sonus Faber, KEF, Magico and many more. I wonder why.
Tekton's marketing is insulting. Patents pending??? My back side. This technology is a century old and if there was some kind of breakthrough don't you think they would describe it in some kind of detail? Do you see anything unusual?. Tweeters, woofers a box in TNTC profiles. What are they using a nuclear powered cross over?  
roxy54, I'm sorry if you bought these things. Unfortunately they will be pretty worthless on the used market. Chock it up as one of life's lessons. 
I do not have to listen to these speakers and neither do a lot of other people who have experience with speaker design and construction. The difference is that most of them are too polite to tell people like you the truth and get blasted, but for me it is fun and I might be able to get a few people to look more closely and ask the right questions so they do not get taken. Political correctness sucks.
roxy54, you are quite correct just a loud mouth with an empty head. Tekton speakers are a garbage marketing scam which I have seen numerous times throughout the years. Tell me what is so special. Domed tweeters, 12" woofers, box, anything else? That stuff has been around for centuries. What they are doing is shoving a lot of it into that box and selling it for relatively cheap prices to suck airheads like you in. Go ahead and get a set. Put your money where your mouth is. 
The minuscule LS 3/5a will out perform that crap in ways someone like you just can not imagine. Those things are a disgrace to every legitimate
speaker company out there like KEF, Sonus Faber, B+W, Harbeth, Focal, Wilson, Magico, Magnepan, Rogers, Soundlabs, Martin Logan, Sanders and many more. All companies that have something special to add to the mix, moving the goalpost forward. Sorry if you have already bought them but I do not pull punches. I have made enough mistakes over the years. Maybe I am just trying to keep some people (not you) from making similar mistakes. If you want loud just get yourself a set of old Altec stage monitors. Blow your head off.