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Tekton Design Moab

Ordered a pair just now. In Dark Gray, to which Tammy immediately said, "Oh the Charcoal is beautiful!" Charcoal sounds better than Dark Gray (even though we are talking about the same color!) so Charcoal it is!  

My beloved Talon Khorus do still sound awfully good. It will be interesting to see how the Moabs stock out of the box compare with these tweaked and modded warhorses. Both the strength, and the weakness, of the Khorus is using the 10" woofer to cover so much midrange. Its a strength because it makes for a very smooth and cohesive sound. But its a weakness because its asking a lot of such a large driver to go so high. Talon makes up for it with their isobaric design. Mounted inside and directly behind the woofer is another identical driver facing the opposite direction. The idea is this relieves the front facing driver of having to compress the air inside the cabinet. This does allow for a much faster response, and is a big reason for the wonderful music the Khorus produces. 

I have a feeling however it is no match for Eric Alexander's ultra-low mass driver array solution. Only one way to know for sure. So we will just have to see!  

 https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/8367 
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millercarbon OP
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No sweat Ray. Don't even know what you're talking about. 😉

Right Randy, what I meant. Just get tired sometimes of differentiating. Eric should dream up some catchy made-up marketing name or something.

All for it Rix, PM your email please. I will do it. Been thinking a long time about something for my turntable. Know enough to understand the suspension and damping need to be tuned to the moving mass of the system but that's about it, haven't waded into the physics of how to work that out. You seem like maybe just the man for that job.
speedbump6
760 posts
 
I must not count, since I’m an about to be moab owner, lol. But I am an already Ulfers owner
speedbump6
760 posts
 
Po, I believe I already answered that question, and it’s yes. I currently own two sets that were well over that price, Wilson sasha daws, and bw 800d3s. I have a solution 710 amp and 720 preamp, they I never heard before buying. A krell 402e and c222 preamp, an ayre kxr twenty, a theta digital casbalnca with full extreme dacs and seven Chanel dreadnaught amp. So, yes, I’ve spent five figures numerous times without hearing any one of those prior to purchasing.
glupson
7,842 posts
 
"Loading them up from the dealer, transporting, unloading, setting up, packing up and getting them back to the dealer all without messing something up is so much work and so darn near impossible its no wonder hardly anyone ever does it."

That is what money-back guarantee is all about. Hardly anyone does it. The bigger the speaker, the less likely return.
speedbump6
760 posts
 
These days there’s usually enough info avaible to get a pretty good idea of what something sounds like to be able to get a likely good matchup so you don’t have to send it back. 
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