Former Tekton owners: What have you moved on to?

Moved way past the Tekton DI’s that I had for 8 months,now since I’m a diy guy of 40 yrs now,mine were tweaked and upgraded a little.

At the first of the year I brought in the Pure audio project open baffles with the Beyma horn Amt driver,i’ve been wanting to try that tweeter and also a open baffle speaker in my system.I really loved the Beyma but a open baffle speaker isn’t gonna work for me in this room,even with Lyngdorf’s room perfect correction.I knew when I bought them that they would be easy to sale locally and they where,no big deal,other than I will be tweaking them as time allows for the new owner,that was part of the deal.

Let me explain my game plan here so maybe you can understand what I’m looking for.
I will be retiring in the next 8 yrs or less and before I do I want to have 3 sets of nice speakers of different topology’s,basically a reference pair for me to represent different build and sound qualities.

I have a nice pair of Silverline Boleros Supremes that I really like,think Dynaudio with a bass kick,but 8ohm and 92 db.So much easier to drive,and they have minimal crossover’s with only 3 parts.I bought these used from a dealer on Audiogon.
The Bolero’s will stay as my reference pair of “Cones and Domes” and will be used in my smaller 2nd system.

So continuing my quest,I got out and about and listened to a few new speakers,and I talked to several of my Audiogon friends that are spread around the country.Then I stumbled upon a couple of reviews on the Lawrence Audio Double Bass speakers and I remembered them when they first came out and how gorgeous they look.The only problem is there’s only about 3 dealers in the USA and they are just not very common.
Anyhow I kept that speaker at the top of my list and I found a demo pair from a dealer that I know and trust.Only had them for six days now but I know these are going to be keepers representing a unique marriage of cones,Amt midrange’s,and ribbon tweeters that sound just as good as they look.

Basically these double bass are unique and different and that’s exactly what I was looking for,most of the new speakers on the market are just ok,just not very impressive to me,and they are kinda just cut from the same cookie cutter.Another thing that’s amazing to me,is that most that I’ve seen so far are 4 ohm and their crossover build and implementation leaves a lot to desire,especially considering the price tag on some of these.

So I have in my system 2 very nice sets of speakers that I just love,and going forward I will be searching for the third set and I have some time not to be in any hurry.

I don’t have any regrets at all owning the DI’s at all but anything from Tekton nation isn’t going to work for me at all.
Just simply a company that I have no respect for and definitely don’t agree with their business practices and ethics.Lesson Learned.

Kenny.

I don’t really care to write a novel about it,but from all the horror stories from people I know scattered around,basically many cases of not getting what they paid for.

I basically received what I paid for with mine,and I would say they are above average speaker for the money,I have no regrets at all,moved on obviously.

Taking all I know and have learned from others left a very bad taste for me,I simply would never do business with someone like this,
They are simply just a slap in the face to respectable manufacturers,Nelson Pass would be a prime example.

When it was time for my DI’s to go,I simply gave them away locally,no way I could ever take any money for them.

If you enjoy your Tekton speakers,that’s great,As you can see,I’ve moved on.I only post here so that folks can see that there’s 2 sides to this story.

Kenny.

Modern day Vandies,very nice and I hope they bring you many yrs of musical bliss.

Richard is definitely a long term highly respected speaker designer and builder for many yrs.Can’t go wrong with those.

Kenny.

Schw06,
If I remember correctly,
Your pair of DI’s are one of 3 pairs that folks have bought that included the “Upgraded Crossovers” and the purchased price at the time of sale reflected this.
But after receiving the speakers we quickly learned they were built with some of the cheapest parts around,Dayton audio Wow,most certainly not the so called better upgraded parts that were purchased.Totally unfathomable in my book.

Now another very confusing and disappointing aspect of this design is the continue designers tweaking and changing of crossover parts quality,specs,and designing “Band Aid” fixes to address some of the overall shortcomings in sonics that this speaker has.

Most reputable manufacturers that I can think of usually have their designs pretty well squared away before releasing to sale.

The pair I owned would be about 1 yr old now,if I still had them,and over this period of time I learned from several members via pm’s that their crossover Implementations vary in overall parts specs and quality vs the pair I had.

Basically like a continuing “Work In Progress” or WIP speaker at the owners expense,nobody knows exactly what version you may have.

Kenny.

Lula,
I Can’t offer any real insight on either Lawrence monitors other than what 2 dealers told me.Both,Jay Kaufman of audio revelations and Mike Kay of Audio archon both said the mandolin is a little more sweeter and musical than the violin.

Lawrence never gained much interest in America,they didn’t market their speakers much here and they also experienced a bad deal 5 yrs ago at RMAF unfortunately.There’s only 3 dealers left now and Jay is semi retired and shrinking his business down.

As a tidbit,I’ve been told that there has been only 4 sets of the double bass speakers shipped to America,and Offcourse my pair is one of them.

I recently inquired about their bird series but no one has any real information about them and all I got was priceing info.None of the bird series has ever been sold here.

I’m personally not interested in any monitor speaker,I only want larger floor standers.

Good luck with your search,
Kenny.