Tekton Design Speakers Price Increase
gdk00111- I didn’t know you can do that! Put your system on here, that is. Very nice! I got some stuff up on Youtube, see below. Equipment list on there, missing some things I am sure. Just picked up a Rogue Audio Stereo 100. Put some telefunken tubes in it, 12au7 and ax7. VERY nice amp. Had the Dragon, took it back. Way too dry, lost the 3d depth. It was very clinical. Like how I imagine some guy behind a control panel of knobs in a mastering studio would want to hear it. Not sure why the Dragon is more expensive... But I will be using that for the most part with these Tekton’s, but being they are so sensitive I just gotta know what those 300Bs sound like! Tekton is 12 weeks out right now but I’ll let you know how they sound. Is that your rig? (Would ya get a load of these clowns? I was a PCA Driving Instructor. Drove and rode in all the Porsches plus more high performance cars - race track, autocross, and roads- than they can name if they got together and wracked their tiny little brains. This is the problem around here: projection. Whole slew of em know zip and with even less experience, so they assume that applies to everyone else, they assume you must be as ignorant and bloviating as they know themselves to be. It is a good assumption in many cases but they go off the deep end every time with me.) |
https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/8367 The best most concise description I have heard is Moabs combine the dynamics of horns with the transient detail of electrostats with the seamlessness of Maggies and combine it all with the power and ability to move air of a large dynamic driver. They are physically big and will play big music with all the scale you would ever want, but they do not make everything sound big and are equally at home with intimate small scale music. I would love to hear mine with a 300B! These things play so loud with my 50 watts, I am sure they would be fine with less, and the magic then, wow! Then if you take that tube amp put it on Pods, put the speakers on Podiums, holy-! You would not believe! |
Sorry about the A-holes gdk00111 we do our best to work around them but they are a very determined lot. Anyway all that matters is you were able to work your way around the blather and figure it out and so soon enough you will find out and know what the rest of us know, Eric Alexander is the real deal. Haven't heard the Electron, haven't heard any of them really other than my Moabs. But I read a lot and spent a good deal of time on the phone with Eric. My bet is you will if anything feel the reviews all understate just how good a speaker Eric really makes. The situation is kind of like with the Porsche 911. For years I would read all the car reviews and they sure made it sound like one fantastic car. But they also made it sound like well really there are a lot of very fantastic cars that are very close. Then one day I get one and the more I drive it the more I realize all those reviewers are full of it! There is nothing even close to a 911! What crap to even put other cars in the same magazine! That is what this is like. There's a guy I know over in the UK, they have hardly any over there because people are afraid to ship and get stuck, but he says everyone over there who has actually heard one is gobsmacked. They are if anything underrated. The competition is overrated. But there are an awful lot out there with what is only slowly dawning on them is old technology. You can expect a lot of butt-hurt. Just go and enjoy your Electrons. I know you will. |
Makes me think of the Shane company radio ads that criticize competition who mark up, put on sale and are essentially charging more. Right. Where would anyone ever get that idea. |
Its obvious you're not a forums guy. You'd know how dreary it is someone comes along goes way off on a subject he nor anyone else here knows anything about- and has nothing to do with audio. Seems there would be groups of marketing or business people better informed and able to do more than kvetch about marketing methods. The guy is so successful he's backlogged months cranking em out fast as he can for who knows how long, but you're gonna second guess him? Okay, enough of that. Looks like about a 10% increase. Not much. Frankly, given the success and the backlog it could easily have been more. One thing anyone looking into it should know, Eric Alexander has said many times he's a speaker builder and by that he means he wants to build speakers. That people can afford. High end speakers without the high end Faberge Egg prices. That he most certainly has done, and is still doing. That's the real story here. A price increase from this point of view is a good thing. With more money maybe he can expand and be able to build more and even better speakers, and faster with less backlog and even better customer service. |
