So many drivers.....better sound or just more sound?

2 1/2 way speakers have real advantages. Like any other speaker, cons too, but I've sometimes thought that these speakers were the ideal small home speaker.

Small foot print, high sensitivity, plenty of bass.

Are you going to find some super speaker which is better? Of course. Are you going to find a more expensive speaker? Sure.

But for the foot print, and live-ability factor, 2 1/2 way speakers have a lot going for them.

Charlie...

Ego and a poor memory ? Shall we dredge up that post of yours where you recommenced Tekton while admitting you had never heard them ?

I was very very careful to not call out Tekton because they are just another in a long list of companies using a bunch of inexpensive drivers in an excitable box. Lots of bang for the buck, if bang is the objective.

OF course I have heard them, 3 models in three different systems, 4 different rooms. they certainly have ear candy that some people like, where is that hat of yours ?????.

and since you are trying to deliver a partial lecture on comparative advantage to a retired Economist. When the car or in this case comes back with an orange peel paint job, I would ask why ?

when you graduate from ear candy you discover why your ear brain likes certain things like distortion, loud, hyper dominant leading edge, etc...some of us ask why...others are hooked on the loudness button at any volume level.

Tomic, it’s seems you have your opinion of the Tektons, that some of do not share. I don’t see or understand why anyone puts down products that they don’t care for themselves. I and many others seem to feel there’s a lot more to the Tektons than an excitable box of cheap drivers. If a box full of excitable cheap drivers just happens to sound better than a “properly” designed speaker with expensive drivers to my ears, so be it. 

So many drivers.....better sound or just more sound?

Or just BS.
Ask your self this, how can that many, even "expensive" let alone "cheap" mechanical pistonic drivers "operate in perfect unison" with each other, at up to 20,000 in/out movements in a second!!.
Ask this of them without them being perfectly matched to each other, electrically and mechanically and then have to be used in the same controlled environment they were matched in??.

Cheers George

Got to jump in on this one.  Having heard both the Tekton Double Impacts and the same with SE version and thought they both sounded pretty good, but maybe not quite what was being posted repeatedly on the Forum, I have had the pleasure of hearing the Bill Dion (grannyring on Audiogon) version of the Double Impacts where he added better drivers on the mid bass and bass and much better crossovers along with direct wiring of each driver with Duelund wire, all on a massive outboard crossover board for each speaker.  My good friend lives about 20 minutes from my house and we get together for music many times a year and enjoy the sessions greatly.  He's had Bill's DI creations for about 2 years now, but the changes in his system and finally getting the setup much better in his room, this last time caused me to have a major geek out for over 4 hours straight--almost embarrassing!  I have a very good system that has been getting better with each add lately.  BUT...I have never had that much fun listening to a stereo in the home or at a show as I did that day and probably will every time from now on.  The sound was so jumping' live, dynamic, with stupendous bass in all ways, yet the upper registers were also fantastic.  Bob is going to be a lucky fella, as am I.  I don't think my system is quite as dynamic nor is the bass quite as deeply textured and as punchy.  I'm happy for him, rather than jealous or wanting to improve my own.  It is possibly equally outstanding in slightly different ways--but the fun factor and feeling like I'm at a really well recorded show, Bill's addition to a good speaker made them as good of a Tekton as I have ever heard by a good margin.  So many drivers CAN make for a great sounding system--with nothing I could find to harp about. 

Just so I can feel the path some of you seem to feel is necessary, my speakers are on of the 2-3 greatest ever VMPS RM40 BCSE w/ MLS cabinets to have been built.  They were the reference speaker for years for Marty DeWulf at Bound For Sound until I bought the pair.  The rest of my system has been researched, tried and improved upon with a plan I started about 6 years ago.  Many of the tweaks you all seem to know are used and quite a few most of you will not have heard of, with many of the PPT products being used toward the end of assembling it.  I was a VMPS demonstrator for the several years prior to Brian Cheney's passing.  Tuned correctly there aren't many speakers systems that can match these for sound, let alone beat them except for sheer volume capability.  The pair of speakers I have and system can mop the floor with the other 2 Tekton DI's I heard.  Check my system page out and know the other parts are also up to it and work together beautifully.

I stand on my statement earlier about the fun of listening to those SPECIAL Tekton DI's.

Bob