Tekton Double Impact SE vs Kef R7 Meta

I wholeheartedly agree with Deep that Wilson Audio is pretentious, aspirational, and grotesquely overpriced trash. But all that Tekton praise? That’s a bridge too far for me.

Granted, I was biased from the start because of the owner’s notorious penchant for acting like an [insert synonyms for donkey and cavity]; this is the guy who went on a crusade against ASR for calling out his speakers to sound like trash, arguing that ASR should have inserted the spikes before testing but did not, thereby causing the issue. Really. Then of course he threatened legal action, thoroughly ridiculing himself in the process.

For that reason alone, I will never own tekton speakers, or DCS or Tom Evans anything for that matter.

Now, if you told me that $12K pro speakers leave $50K Wilson speakers in the dust I would be totally willing to entertain that notion, because more than likely you would be right. But tektons? Their enclosures are plain-jane, rectangular, ported monkey coffins. Drivers are budget junk. Crossovers? Who knows. The only obvious differentiator is the sheer number of drivers (picture tekton owner conjuring dead Kabuki speakers’ spirits during late-night séance).

I think there might be Moabs for sale locally. Maybe I should go take a listen. Just for the sake of dotting Is and crossing Ts

@devinplombier Yeah, like I said in my original post, I know they're a controversial brand, but until I actually hear a pair I can't really pass judgement. The people that love them REALLY love them, and the people that don't REALLY don't lol. I expect nothing less in a hobby as subjective as audio. For now I'll keep my eye out and see if I can audition some. 

@jcatdcat And what color would your wife pick?

@dstryker77 Paul at PS Audio just released this Q&A video on why dynamics are so hard to reproduced.  On the speaker side, a lower mass driver has an easier time on dynamics, with Tekton array-type speaker, which uses lower mass to manage this easier, as Eric has also pointed out on the Tekton YouTube page.  Thus, Tekton is known to have good Dynamics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJHgmy-UfAQ

I do not think scanspeak and satori beryllium  at an upgrade are junk speakers.many speakers are box type. You can go from mild to wild with tektons including an 11k beryllium upgrade on ulfbrics ?spelling. Eric has sold to many high end musicians. Very few manufactures will let you call them and say i want mundorf caps and do such.he will build what you want. He has very expensive measuring devices for sound integration.. I have 3 sets of ulfbrics in various stages including home theater.my all be set at 20k are ne t to my kharma grand,> 200k,focal utopia grand> 200k, magico q7> 200k and sure have nice cabinets but you pay for that.now the ulfbrics are 95 % in sound quality of those reference speakers.my ulfbrics have been driven by mcintosh 2kw,krell 700 , michi m8, hegel h 30 mono,boulder, Dan dagostino , bhk 600 and others and they take all the wattage no sound compression great dynamics no cone breakup be cause paul explained physics momentum tum is mass x velocity and d he has developed a patent that other European manufa tures copy.tekton has a 30 day trial go take the challenge. I have taken the tour of tekton and ps audio as you should too .happy listening even if it's the transister radio from the 70s.this should get the party going😃

It’s comical how many people respond who haven’t heard either speaker. They just like to hear themselves talk.