Tekton Speakers,Who owns them and what did you replace and why.

I can relate to the Pendragons,I heard them in a friends system about 3yrs ago,I even tried some of my gear with them and I personally found them to be a Bombastic incoherent mess.

My friend still has them and still loves them,go figure.

Kenny.

waltersalas,

Very nice assessment of 2 very nice speakers.
Would you say the DI's sound is very musical and engaging and you just enjoy the music and don't even think about putting on the audiophile hat.

That's how it is for me and they make it much harder to review any gear upstream of them.

Kenny.

jmc,

Fair enough but could you point out where I speculated.

I'm the kind of person that likes to get out and about and listen to all kinds of gear.

I'm here to learn and also help others learn if possible and I really don't like silly confrontations.

Respectfully,
Kenny.

james,

That's a very interesting comparison of some very fine gear and we look forward to any more thoughts that you have.


waltersalas,
Very well written and a excellent explanation on this all important topic of engagement with the music we love and basically forgetting all about our gear.

This is something I personally have been seeking and striving for myself and I can definitely say I'm there also with only minor tweaks and changes in sonic flavors.

Kenny.

robelvick,

Very interesting comparison in your different speakers,I've only heard a couple models of spendors and I'm not familiar with your others but I'm glad you did find what you were looking for and I hope you get lots of enjoyment from them.

Kenny.

david_ten,

Quite a interesting journey too the arrival of your Tekton speakers and I'm glad to read that you have settled in for now and hopefully for a extended period,Life happens to us all and there's no better feeling than being settled in.

You are the 3rd person that has told me they originally brought in the Di speaker for HT duty,only to be completely shocked of this speakers overall musicality right out of the box and certainly not optimized in placement and upstream pairings.

I wanted to include all current Tekton speakers because everyone isn't going to gravitate towards the DI's and I do believe there are other good candidates in the lineup.
Some folks may say that Eric of Tekton has way to many choices and maybe so,I'm not him and I'm not going to debate that.

I have owned probably more than my share of speakers in my journey of 36yrs in this hobby and I can say without any doubts I'm still highly impressed and satisfied with mine.

Enjoy that music,
Kenny.

hifiman,

I appreciate the link to Paul's video and I found it to be very interesting.I know I love my DS dac best digital that I have had.

Maybe you will get a chance to listen to a pair of DI's or other Tekton speakers sometime.I don't know anybody in your state that has them and I live quite a distance from you.

I have posted several details and my opinions of this DI speaker on other threads that I don't want to repeat here for now but here is some other thoughts pertaining to this design and It's lack of exotic material drivers.

I tend to fall into the tribe that likes a more natural sounding speaker overall,and I don't like most modern "HiFI" speakers regardless of the cost.


1. In order to have a powerful, dynamic speaker you need to move a lot of air. The 22 drivers in these DIs do this with ease.
2. In order to recreate vocal and timbral accuracy, your speaker must move the air JUST RIGHT and stay within the sweet spot of movement.The principle of the DI, using low mass drivers to replicate harmonic and format (Vocal overtones) structures accomplishes this accurate air movement.

Kenny.

When it comes to Poly drivers,I haven't heard any speakers that use them since I owned a pair of Kappa 9's many yrs ago.Several speakers of that time period used Poly woofers and maybe other drivers like mids.I can recall a weird sound from them that just wasn't natural and I changed both of the 10 inch woofers to paper cone woofers,It's been so long ago that I don't remember what I used.

There is some great technology in very thin but rigid thinned epoxy nano spheres that are a hand me down from the aerospace industry and make great paper cone coatings,quite similar to what Zu audio speakers use.

Kenny.

My listening room is 20x25x9 and has a open kitchen on one side and the other side is open to the front door entryway and front bedroom.

I have no Idea what models would be at RMAF but I'm sure they would want to showcase their top models.You might call them and see,I'm sure other folks would like to know as well.

Kenny.