Stereophile review of the $30,000 tekton speakers
We have had many discussions/arguments over tekton speakers in the past, mainly involving a couple posters who thought their $4000 tektons sounded better than the highest price Wilson’s and other high budget speakers.
In the latest Stereophile magazine, they did a review of the $30,000 tekton’s. In this Steteophile issue, they rate these $30,000 tekton’s as class B. When you look at the other speakers that are in the class B section, you will notice most of these speakers range in price from $5000-$8000. So it looks like you have to spend $30,000 on a pair of tekton’s to equal a pair of $5000 Klipsch Forte IV’s sound quality.
If I compare these $30,000 class B tekton’s, to some of the class A speakers, there are some class A speakers for 1/2 the price (Dutch & Dutch 8C, Goldenear triton reference), or other class A speakers that are cheaper (Magico A5, Kef blade 2).
That's right--never heard a good speaker. My reference is live music--not so sure I need to a good audio show and "work my way up to $250-500k speakers". Love it when terms like "blow away" are used. Totally worthless and unqualified. Value is a relative term. A $250k speaker would never have value in my world. But if you want to blow the bucks be my guest. |
Once again a member makes a universal judgement about value based on his perspective. Doesnt help your case when you use "my world" and "blow the bucks" in the same paragraph. You admit that you see no need to listen to six figure speakers so you dont know and should remain silent. The ideal Tekton customer I should think. |
@audioman58 I have no skin in this game, I don't own and will never own Tekton speakers but I am curious as to what your factual basis of these 2 statements are: "Payed for reviews." "Now average sales at best" Thanks in advance for providing the detailed factual specifics |
I am in a multi state audioclub, if you look at reviews going back 2-3 years ago with all the farfair. Being in audio for decades and owning a Audio store. I went through the politics of reviews and spoke with Companies that had excellent products ,were the magazine reviewers stated clearly put $$ x amount of $$ on 1/2 or full page ads $30k+ and we will see too you get very good reviews , one company ESP won speaker of the year late 90s , and several years later out of business because he was small he got average reviews there after plenty of politics in Audio, and myself having help upgrade many Loudspeaker Xovers have over 20+ years in Xover parts quality which greatly influence the sound, I just speak about what is possible to improve the sound quality and the Xover is a weakness on most loudspeakers even over $20k ,.most mfg have no formal experience with that many parts .where I have well over 10,000 actual hours on capacitors Sonic signature and runin time on the majority of capacitors out there . check this out As a good reference , Humble Home made hifi capacitor test. also Jantzen make the best quality inductors for quality,value imo. Also the Excellent Path Audio resistors. |
