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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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MC and Mahgister, yes spring resonance is something I am looking into. I do also keep some mass loading on top of the speakers. Each spring pod had 7 springs and there are 4 pods per speaker. I am considering putting some memory foam inside each spring. Not enough to limit the springs downward movement, but enough to damp. Will report once I give it a try. And MC, thanks for the tips on the Townshend podiums!
Almost missed this what with all the sage audiophiles trying to figure out speaker connections. 😳

Springs are great, tuned and tweaked springs even better, but Townshend Podiums are in a league of their own. Have you tried them?
thecarpathian
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Hey, there were 6 outputs.
It was all very confusing.
These cutting edge advancements are hard to keep up with.
Audio sure is complicated!
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https://youtu.be/ilG8mzbHNNI?t=100
theaudiotweak
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Here are the E-loops I have http://www.exemplaraudio.com/Products/E-Loops.html
They may have been originally created by Bud Purvine of Washington St.
Bud is the inventor of the patented EnABL process a material application to speaker cones and other surfaces to reduce or remove a polarity of shear mistakenly described as a standing wave. Bud now thinks it is a Rayleigh wave...but it certainly has more than 1 polarity. Reduces interfering energy. Tom
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