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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2019 5:39:25 GMT
These Tekton Design speakers have been getting a lot of press and rave reviews in the States. As they are only available factory direct in the USA the likelihood of ever hearing them is remote. By all accounts they are excellent value and they punch way above their cost. I am not one to judge a speaker on it's looks that usually comes second to the sound.
In this particular case I just can not get my head around the looks of these things, to be kind I find the looks to be "slightly disturbing". Making my former statement fly out the window. Here are two examples of his rather large range of speakers. Tekton Ulfberht the flag ship.  Tekton Double Impact The one that seems to be getting the most attention.  |
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Post by macca on Sept 22, 2019 6:55:14 GMT
'Review' of the double impact here www.prespeaker.com/2017/03/tekton-design-double-impact-floorstanding-speaker-reviewed/although reads more like advertorial. Any review that starts with the reviewer proclaiming the designer as 'brilliant' is always going to be worthless. I got interested when he got to 'The Downside' because no speaker is perfect and the most important thing a review can do is tell you what they don't do so well, then you can decide if it is a failing you can live with. But the only downside he finds is that they might be a bit too bassy in a small room. With twin 10inch woofers in a massive cab? No Sh#t, sherlock. |
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Post by Bigman80 on Sept 22, 2019 7:19:26 GMT
There is at least one Youtube of the double impact. It didn’t make me want to hear a pair in the flesh. They really are ugly, too. The flagshipmones are even worse, which I didn’t believe was possible.
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Post by dsjr on Sept 22, 2019 8:57:26 GMT
All those tweeters as separate point sources just ain't gonna work in a typical smaller UK room I think. Sit several metres away and maybe things are very different. The smaller ones attracted me several years ago because the drivers were good but not especially 'trad HiFi' types (I think some were Eminence?) and again, the baby floor stander was from memory, a full range well behaved driver with a tweeter helping augment the very top of the range. I gather the thinking is almost NVA-like, where a finger is lifted to many conventional ways of doing things and the end result equally polarising. In this case, who else would use a tweeter array like that - seems to work really well though -
Mind you, if we end up with a 'really good' trade deal with the US, we may have more access to stuff like this without horrendous import duties - maybe..... You'd be amazed how much more expensive Rega is over there for example and in a Stereophile review of some Spica's, comment was made of the Comparison with Celestion SL6, where this latter was around twice the price of the Spica 50 in the US yet pretty much the opposite was true here, the Spica far more expensive than the Celestion.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2019 9:21:54 GMT
Yanks.
More and bigger = better.
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Post by macca on Sept 22, 2019 9:39:16 GMT
All those tweeters as separate point sources just ain't gonna work in a typical smaller UK room I think. Sit several metres away and maybe things are very different. The smaller ones attracted me several years ago because the drivers were good but not especially 'trad HiFi' types (I think some were Eminence?) and again, the baby floor stander was from memory, a full range well behaved driver with a tweeter helping augment the very top of the range. I gather the thinking is almost NVA-like, where a finger is lifted to many conventional ways of doing things and the end result equally polarising. In this case, who else would use a tweeter array like that - seems to work really well though -
Mind you, if we end up with a 'really good' trade deal with the US, we may have more access to stuff like this without horrendous import duties - maybe..... You'd be amazed how much more expensive Rega is over there for example and in a Stereophile review of some Spica's, comment was made of the Comparison with Celestion SL6, where this latter was around twice the price of the Spica 50 in the US yet pretty much the opposite was true here, the Spica far more expensive than the Celestion.
So the tweeter array acts as the midrange driver. Interesting. Measurements look okay too. Suspect from what he says in the review the cabs could do with being a bit more solid. But you can't have everything at that price I suppose. |
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Post by dsjr on Sept 22, 2019 10:05:15 GMT
I suppose Kralk is as near to this as we have in the UK, although his latest speakers as shown at this weekend's show seem to now have more 'normalised' soft plastic cones? rather than paper...not on the website though, so not sure if they'll replace what he already does.
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