The Double Impact SE are bit bigger, but may be the last pair I need to buy. The woofers and tweeters all incorporate copper-clad, aluminum-wirewound voice-coils to further reduce the moving mass of the system. Two weeks went buy and I called and spoke to a very nice women named Connie at which time she told me that theyd be shipping out in a few days and I did receive them a few days later by which I was very excited. Report Comment. I want to leave you guys (Eric and Karma) with a few words of my feelings toward the Double Impact speakers. They didnt project and when I hear the left hand on a Rachmaninoff piano concerto it had better have some umph. Something didnt sit right with me. Those thoughts forced me to scrutinize these unusual-looking, bulky, flame-orange boxes, and listen extra carefully for what must be wrong. These impact monitors sound awesome! I think the rhythmik subs I have help fill out the lowest of lows but in a medium sized or small room, these could be all you need ever. I am a musician of many years and was responsible for making some really great players sax mouthpieces which I did for almost four decades and I also have my own line of saxophones for what thats worth. Some Stereophile visitors are simply laughable in this respect (you know who you are). These are CDs that Thisarray disperses aprecisely focused acoustical powerpatternof that of a horn or waveguide withoutthe audible ringinginfluence of hornflare walls constraining the soundwavefor acoustically superior mid-rangehigh frequency performance, 4 Ohm design for optimum performance 8 Ohm & 2 Ohm Double Impact option, Ultra-linear frequency response with 1dB deviation from 70Hz-20kHz, Height 54 (137.16 cm) x Width 12 (30.48 cm) x Depth 17.75 (45.085 cm). I have tried close to a dozen other speaker brands (Klipsch, Martin Logan, B&W, JBL, Monitor Audio, Tannoy, etc.) Upon leaving I called Tekton with about 2 hours of advance notice, which I dont recommend (later), and I was met with an extremely pleasant welcoming experience. Thanks so much for providing these tremendous offerings at prices that mere mortals can still afford!!! Finally, these speakers have a silky-smooth, grainless signature that draws you into the music. As the album starts, the sense of space and realism is palpable. The room was packed most of the times I dropped by as the buzz at CAF was 'have you heard how good those [] speakers sound'. Keep in mind this is with my Denon receiver. . I hear the music. Always with a cautious mind, thinking that the hype may be greater than the reality. I toured the local hi fi shops and found mostly over priced and/or underwhelming speakers. US Audio Mart 2023-04-19. The differentiation of the instruments is unlike any other I have heard. I think you know what Im talking about! But I cant hear the speakers. I may have stayed so long they had to charge rent. Cast Iron Speaker Stands Tekton's Impact Monitor is just under two cubic feet in volume, but right out of the box, sitting on Sound Anchor stands, the pair of them filled my 1400-cubic-foot room like much bigger speakers. I have waited two weeks after receiving my Impact Monitor speakers to write to you and express my feelings about your speaker. Speakers: Tekton Perfect SET 15, Tekton Lore, Magneplaner .7 Interconnects: Morrow Audio MA1, Vermouth Audio Black Pearl, Audioquest Evergreen Incredible. Few speakers can play every musical genre with the Impact's level of ease, acuity, and, uh . Back to the Double Impacts.I have been listening in stereo only. That was then. After about 10 songs from various artists that I picked from a crate full of Erics CDs I knew I found what I was looking for. My favorite was Eric is a drummer and he figured out the SIN waves in his patented tweeter array to breakdown live music and horn instruments with ease. To be fair, the highs on the Focus SEs might be better, but only slightly and certainly not worth another $8,000 if you ask me. They just sound so good. Nevertheless, the orange color scheme and technology makes sense to me now. Why is any of this important to audiophiles? I could cover these things with a Silky Cloth and a Statue of Vlad. The world is changing, and where is hi-fi going? el.innerHTML = "Loading"; Articles concerning HP's mil-spec industrial-grade quality in the years before they produced PCs raised awareness about their production plants and quality control. Only thing I disliked about them was that they are active speakers. ps. Email. Ive had this music for 30 years and I heard things in this recording that Ive never heard before. They had no presence and above all were not at all exciting and I played everything on them from Bachs Goldberg Variations, Scarlatti piano sonatas, BB King with a full horn selection, Bill Evans, Mozarts symphony #41 in C major, even some rap, my whole playlist plus a bunch of CDs. Hands down, Best speakers in 2021 for audiophile sound quality in home audio with small spaces like condos/apartments is the tekton troubadour without a doub. I don't think any of them have ever matched his sensitivity claims which are as high as 99dB on some models. The Tekton Design 'Perfect SET' delivers the sharp clean bass, rich fidelity, and accuracy that escapes the decades-old, obsolete classic full-range/high-efficiency horn loudspeaker. Tekton Ulfberht Speakers w/ Be high frequency upgrade [4 ohms ea.] It is a treat to listen to and watch on a Blu-Ray concert. Its difficult putting into words just how thrilled I am with the Double Impacts, but before I get into sharing their attributes let me describe my speaker journey prior to purchasing them. That said, I can crank the hell out of Credence Clearwater Revival, Pink Floyd, Miles Davis, INXS, Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, etc. Youre always welcome in Gillette WY if you are ever passing though!!! The Impact Monitor has become my new reference speaker for my second system in a smaller acoustic space. Why? and bought a pair of up-graded Double Impact Speakers. Note, I am not a bass head. 12,531 posts. My Eyes are demanding a Grill ( or at least requesting less impact ). I wanted to send you a brief email to let you know I received my DIs two days ago. Ive found a new enjoyment of listening at low volumes, as I can still hear all the dynamics in the music! LAAS 2017 - Tekton Lore, Tekton Double Impact, ELAC Debut F5, Magnepolaner .7, for size comparison . US Audio Mart . ", "You get the speed and velocity normally only found in horn speakers, which gives you the sense of aliveness of real music, without the colorations of those designs. When the song Time opens up, and the clocks are ticking and then the alarms go off, I literally burst into laughter at the sheer sound being delivered to my eardrums. Where the five-star ranking comes from is how these speakers compete with the finest engineered and built speakers from the worlds most lauded speaker companies. ", One wonders how they explain not multiplying woofers in order to keep up their mass mojo for kettle and bass drums, piano etc Cabinets placed in a warehouse at different stages of completion and a few very busy, but polite individuals, including Eric Alexander. They disappear. In a way the Impact Monitors have ruined other speakers (within their reasonable price range) for me because now even clean sounding or tonally perfect dont do it for me if the scale isnt there. IEC Power Cables: Kimber Kable PK10-1.0M5266evo-320evo & PK14-1.0M5266evo-320evo Wish I had known, Id have come perpared to be comfortable and pick all the songs I love not just the well recorded ones. Thanks to Eric for not only making such musically real sounding speakers, but for doing so at prices that are not only affordable but at a mere fraction of what youd have to spend to match them, Your email address will not be published. The Double Impacts make me feel set for life after 30 years of audiophile pursuits. When I admitted that this shocked me and that I still didn't understand, Alexander continued: "Some of the magic of our patented seven-tweeter polycell array is the dramatically reduced system moving mass and its power-handling capabilities. My personal experiences and those of most owners of these speakers echo that of the reviews. The difference in low level detail is not subtle. It is clean, powerful and articulate. The reason is now obvious for the rave magazine reviews of the Double Impacts. We show these methods in the patent, and we show how overtones and harmonics lumped up into a resultant wave are subtly diminished and damped when the transducer has a mass higher than the original source [eg, again, a violin string]. Simply put, I am very happy with my choice. Applicable onOrders above Rs. Even higher end speakers in the $5,000 range that may have a touch more definition at the very top end (mentioned below) cannot compete with the mid-range or scale produced by these in my set up. (store manager) March 4, 2020. A final note, the Double Impact are so transparent/neutral you will hear the signature of what ever you drive them with. (Grilles are available for $50/pair. It's a three-way bass-reflex design with a rear-firing port that loads two 6.5" mid/bass drivers and, yup, seven 1" fabric-dome tweeters. After taking my time unpacking and positioning my speakers I connected them using the Mogami cables you sent to my Peachtree Nova300 integrated amp. In my small apartment, the Tekton Impact Monitors, in their High Gloss black finish, looked much bigger than they had at RMAF 2017. Getting a pair in that deep grey, theyre gorgeous. They used to find people that had negative reviews on forumsand theyd swarm in like losers just blowing up their spot. Keven Deal just did a YouTube Review of the Tannoy Cheviot ( which wants $6,500 up front and Funeral Home setting back home ). Apparently, Ron from New Record Day was provided with a sample of the Tekton Impact Audiophile tower speakers. So it would be interesting to see the Impact \ measured with Amir's monster to see if its greater resolution and the Spinorama protocol reveal any additional concerns. Each speaker stands 24.5" tall by 10.125" wide by 13.1" deep and weighs 40 lb. Was in listening heaven. ), According to Eric Alexander, "The woofers are lightweight, natural-fiber, pulp-based cones that include papyrus fibers to aid in rigidity. There is no contest here in terms of mid-range sound and scale of presentation. A little softbut not too soft. detail or accuracy. With near full-frequency sound - impactful bass, clear midrange and sweet highs - and large soundstage, the Impact Monitor is a great choice if you need to save some space in your listening area, as compared to our floor-standing speakers. var el = document.getElementById( 'cp-no-js-msg' ); Im talking like upwards of 30+. When the violin note 440Hz is played, it produces many discernible higher-frequency overtones and harmonics, [but] when played back [those are] all lumped up as a single resultant wave; this is how the amplifier sees it and feeds it to the loudspeaker. 400 Watt power handling. Any concerns I had about the overall power and impact these speakers could be capable of were totally dispelled. I think the big name audio companies have been selling a lot of sizzle and not a lot of substance. We recently took a Family Vacation that ended up taking us through Orem UT on the way to Lagoon. At extremely high volumes (101 dB) they are clean and nice with no harshness. impact. Last night track after track I put through these blew my socks off. The first thing that it reminded me of was the Wilson Alexandria X-2 that I had a chance to listen to while auditioning for my 804. Speak plainly. The only caveat regarding the Double Impacts is that they will reveal deficiencies your upstream components. ( I can easily forgive 'em for bee-n mormons if that's what they are ). We have incorporated several internal construction techniquesincluding cross-bracingto ensure [that] the speaker has a solid overall foundation and a rigid launching surface for the nine transducers.". I cant help but giggle at her. . They raised the sonic level of all my recordings. The user seems to have gone back to Klipsch. LOL. Thats a really lousy experience. These have just blown me away and I have to say that the more I listen I have to say that there is nothing I heard at The RMAF that I would swap out for my Double Impacts. Phew. You are a musical genius sir. I am a musician of many years and was responsible for making some really great players sax mouthpieces which I did for almost four decades and I also have my own line of saxophones for what that's worth. I heard the Tekton at a trade show, and it sounded like a decent speaker playing bad demo material. That said, once again I am fortunate to have an increased hobby budget, and am considering upgrading to the Electron SE or Double Impact SE to get better bass with the same mid-range and highs I have come to enjoy from the Tekton house sound. My rant is over. The detail of these speakers make all my music sources sound like Im listening to them for the first time. . I'm looking for monitors, and from the reviews I've been able to find, they seem unbeatable at that price point. 11.7k Masters Level Member Share; Posted May 6, 2021. Tekton Perfect SET 2-10 900 900 USD USD. The best was everyone new to the group had the same questionIf these are so good why isnt there a distribution deal? ", "Make no mistake, the Tekton Design DIs are among the best loudspeakers I have heard in my home, regardless of price. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Its sound [] far surpassed any number of systems costing way more. Which left one question that only I could answer: Would the Tekton Design Impact Monitor play my recordings as well as it played the ones I heard at RMAF 2017? Nov 28, 2021. Ive been in shops that preferred the overly creamy bass sound before so its a taste Im not a fan of because it kills the treble detail that I like. For one, there were wayyyyy to many models of loudspeaker. forget that.THESE ARE FUN!!!! Bi-amplification adds support for dual amplifiers. Otherwise this could at best be called a two and a half way. Pianos are tough to get right, but the Impact Monitors nailed the percussive transients and full tonality of Milcho Leviev's astonishing Man From Plovdiv solo piano CD. In Corvallis OR and Fort Collins CO, the workforce was described as consisting of "Mormons and born-again Christians". Tekton is the real deal and TOTALLY worth the wait. So I hit the mute button to investigate. They are seemless from top to bottom with a liquid midrange and beautiful highs that seem to float in mid air. Tekton Lore and matching center speaker set, only one year old US Audio Mart $1,480 Jul 13, 2022 Reverb Tekton Designs Lore Full Tower Speaker Pair - Upgraded . That system would cost $117,000 in todays dollars. Unfortunately, that bass was bloated and boomy. And this transport/server comparison was done with real-time A/B switching. Don't believe the reviews. But I did research thoroughly, and paid a lot of attention to reviews of the double impact. McIntosh C50 Preamplifier I'll have to return to this review after the prose dissolves. I originally was drawn to the Pendragonsbut the reviews online were either These are beating speakers $10-20k over their price! Or I hated themcompletely incoherent bombastic mess. The vocals are a little airier, dreamier. But the Double Impacts revealed the change of digital source in way that jumped out at my non-audiophile friend. And they're unusually easy to drive. Impact Monitor. . But I did have a slight schadenfreud moment for all those dorks in the FB group to hear the unbeatable DI sounded like shit lol. Thanks again for the excellent service. Eric, i received my double impacts today and I am amazed. JavaScript must be supported by your browser and needs to be enabled in order to view this page. The treble is pristine and liquid. I hired a couple of guys to help me get them up the stairs of our place and set them up and boy, was I disappointed. Anyway, glad I didn't fall for the hype and buy a pair without demoing them first. If you are making your decision based on sound alone in this price range, in my opinion these are the best speakers which is why I bought them and would highly recommend them to anyone who isnt a bass head. It seems to happen on artificially low notes below 40 Hz. Associated equipment: Musical Fidelity A300, Schiit Bifrost DAC, Kimber PBJ interconnects, Audioquest Type 4 (crimp terminated without solder), dedicated laptop computer configured with Fidelizer and playing WAV files ripped from CDs. Thank you Eric for putting the performers and performance right in front of me. Moab is seamless top to bottom and creates a wall-to-wall soundstage with realistically sized images. I believe I may heed his advice. Youll hear details you didnt know were in your favorite music and youll hear them in a way that places the performers in your room. The Good: Final Thoughts: Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. The result is reduced moving mass and great damping qualities. NOTE: High gloss finishes have longer lead times than standard gloss. One reviewer said something like that they were worth speakers costing more than ten thousand dollars and another one said that some audiophiles were trading in their THIRTY-thousand-dollar speakers for the Double Impacts. The mids are spot on. This reminds me of the day I was at the unveiling of the ess heil line. These speakers are perfect at telling the story the artist wants to tell. And I do thoroughly enjoy listening to these for hours on end! Back to the Tekton. The clarity and details are ahead in the Tektons. These are absolutely incredible. Even when I listen to my much smaller Yamaha studio monitors, I can hear them in the next room and when I use my cars stereo which only costs two-thousand dollars, its exciting. . Terry London, 6 moons. A little soft . An 8 ohm version of the Impact Monitor is available on special request. Don't some people always violate the zone? That was at a shop called Paragon and of course they specialized in the paragon, when the heils were auditioned half the room rushed to the hallway to confront the owner of the shop. And there was no way to audition them. Is this a killer speaker for smaller rooms? but not too soft. 98 dB sensitivity be damned, these speakers loved (needed?) The thing that really gets me with these speakers that I think not enough people talk about, and that I feel the magic in these are, is the sense of scale that these produce. I shifted my search to the Internet and after pouring over many reviews decided to try Aperion. The KEF Blade ($32,000) being referenced a few times. Tekton is a direct sale not through a distributor. Throughout the next 20 years I owned many well respected and known brands including Vandersteen, Magnepan, Revel, Audio Research,Odyssey, Levinson and Proceed.