Tekton Design Moab

I know that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  However, just go to Six Moons website and in the archive look up my review on the Moab.  There are great pictures of both my pair of Ulfs in a custom paint job and the review pair of Moabs in a striking beautiful custom color.

By the way I also gave them a "Blue Moon Award" for being one of the products of the year. You get very close to the performance of the Ulfs, but for half the price.  I asked Eric, in the review, if he was concerned about hurting his own sales of his reference speaker with coming out with the Moab design. In typical fashion, Eric's answer was no, all he cares about is building the best speakers that he can at prices that the great majority of music lovers can realistically purchase.

I have a great sense of pleasure at being the first professional reviewer that did reviews on the DI, Ulf, PS, DI monitor and Moab speakers.  Each one was a joy to have in-house and all are superlative performers at different price points that are some of the best bargains regarding performance vs cost ratio.

To be honest I don't really care much what things look like. Or what they're made from for that matter. When I listen, I listen. Lights out, eyes closed. That's not to say I don't care at all. My wife has good color sense and so I did ask her before choosing Charcoal.

But really, I am all about the sound. Its very likely that within a year or so these will have been taken apart and put back together again, a process in which it may well turn out there are good mods that would improve the sound while damaging or changing or covering up the impeccable exterior finish. In that case I would be shooting myself in the foot. Not to mention, life happens. Vacuum cleaner, oops.... chip, scuff... which let's face it is pretty much inevitable.  

The great value of being able to talk with teajay about this is his comparing the Moab to another strong contender, the Ulfberht. Long story short, there is less between these two than between say my current Melody and a Raven. For what Ulfberhts cost I could have Moabs and a Raven Nighthawk. Or half a Reflection MkII. Which is another long term goal. Me being the value buyer that I am that is a strong argument for the Moabs.

Happy for your purchase and I hope you enjoy them. Though they do look like those hunter killers with the tentacles in the matrix. That array looks just like their eyes. Anyways, I happy for you. 

Ain’t nothing better than a new pair of speakers. Made by man at least.
I heard double impacts a couple years back and liked the sound very much.

they do look like those hunter killers with the tentacles in the matrix. That array looks just like their eyes.

Glad you brought that up. In the future of The Matrix robots have harnessed human beings and are keeping them alive in order to harvest their energy. A violation of pretty much all the laws of thermodynamics, made all the more ludicrous by all the trouble they went to provide the pod people such a marvelous dream world. It made Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure seem almost some kind of intellectual documentary. What a shame. When with just a few lines of dialog it could have made total sense: We’re smart but not creative. The humans are creative, but not as slaves. We will make them believe they are not slaves.

In other words what the banksters and the Fed do now, The Matrix robots would be doing. But the banksters bankroll Hollywood, that’s way too much truth for debt slaves, and so instead we got a word salad shoot em up.

Eric Alexander built and listened and tried and failed over and over again until he had the creative insight that the problem is we’re trying to recreate the harmonic structure of very low moving mass parts with very high moving mass parts. Not having access to Keanu Reeves, Lawrence Fishburne and Carrie Moss to paper over this giant gaping hole in the story with a shiny blingy facade (like everyone else is doing) he went all creative on the robots and invented his awesome tweeter array.

Tweeters have very low mass and very high power to weight ratio. The only problem being they’re small, and so find it hard to move the large mass of air required of low frequencies. A whole bunch of them moving together however can get the job done. I’m told the tweeter array in the Moabs is equivalent to a 9" midrange.

Pretty phenomenal when you think about it. What Eric has done is create a 9" midrange with the effective moving mass of a 1" tweeter. No wonder everyone says the midrange is so beautiful. I can hardly wait to hear it myself.