Tekton Double Impacts

Olesno,

My DI's are the Mercedes black diamond. The metal flake is subtle and it needs to be in bright to fully appreciate. I liked it a lot when I had them in my family, even the wife liked the color. In my dark listening room they look like a gloss piano black, which is fine with me.

Vitop,

I would put the Linear Tube Audio gear in the "Tekton" price value family, especially the MZ2 and ZOTL 10. Quality parts made by hand is America, sound great and are priced for the average man. I look forward to hearing what others suggest. 

Grannyring,

I couldn't agree more with you, and teajay. Tekton will expose the common man to audiophile performance and expand the audio industries base. I gave my Tekton Enzo's to my son and he's totally into the audio scene now. Three of his friends bought Tekton speakers after hearing his. These twenty and thirty somethings could support the audio industry for many years to come. My son and his friends are all into tubes and vinyl also......old school for youngins. Gotta luv it. 

Mac: I just looked at the ZOTL10 and at least for me, it is not as compelling as the Tekton. I honestly believe that the Di can hold it's ground against 30k speakers I have heard. With the 2600 price of the ZOTL10, the same formula would put it against 26k amps. Some pretty heady stuff.

"I would estimate the speakers will take 2-3 weeks to make for standard finish. At least that is what I was told this weekend."

Aniwolfe, and Terpstation,

2-3 weeks is surprising to me. I ordered the 8" Electrons, first in white, then about 10 days ago changed to gray while awaiting production news. I was told then that Eric is tweaking the 8" Electrons. I stated how important it was for me to have a finished product since I lack any tech experience, and would not want to attempt any updates. I'm sure Eric would not knowingly send out a model that needed additional fine tuning. I personally am willing to wait until he is completely comfortable with his adjustments to this model.I ordered my pair 5 weeks ago.

BTW, it feels good to find others who have chosen the Electrons. These D.I. guys are driving me nuts.

     LP

I'd put the Benchmark AHB2 amplifier in the "Tekton of Amplifiers" category for most innovative solid-state at a cheaper price point than the upgraded Double Impacts ($3000 last I checked).  It sounds very good too, but I still ended up returning it and going with the Art Audio Diavolo SET 300b Copper Ref Tube amplifier at a bit more than double the price because I know what I love to hear and it delivers the goods everytime.
 There may very well be better SETS, but not for me, because I stopped looking. 

I so wish a used one was available at the time I was shopping, they make very affordable and reliable used tube amplifiers.  My last one clocked a decade before I stupidly sold it chasing Omega panel speakers dreams from Analysis Audio of Greece.  

Anybody using a tube based system using 211 tubes with the DIs?