Has anyone here had any dealings with Tekton, particularly their subwoofers

Tekton is known as much for the cretinous beef it got into with ASR as for its speakers. ASR basically trashed a Tekton speaker and Tekton threatened ASR with legal action. Hilariously Tekton itself brought up evidence during the process that the build quality of that particular speaker was indeed questionable, albeit not for the reasons ASR had written about. 

Threatening legal action on reviewers that don't love a product is not a honorable thing to do. It is also quite ill-advised, because it always ends up in PR disaster (yes, social media is a thing nowadays).

Latest in a parade of businesses that also includes dCS is heretofore obscure Tom Evans, maker of a $30,000 garbage phono preamp no one knew about until YouTuber Mend It Mark published a repair video of the preamp in question. Tom Evans judged the video disparaging and bullied Mend It Mark into taking it down. It worked at first (Mend It Mark took the video down), but look it up and see for yourself how well things are working out for Tom Evans now.

Back to Tekton, regardless of whether their speakers are any good, the question is whether you have much appetite to support bullying, intimidation and anti-competitive behavior with your dollars.

My two cents

I would love to have ASR Amir and Erin over at my place blindfolded

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@livinon2wheels 

Also from Germany is Geithain, which is an extremely well regarded audio brand in Europe. Ex-GDR, been around forever, very old school. Here are their subwoofers. They’re cardioid, so less likely to suffer boundary interference response issues therefore easier to place and get right.

Geithain has no distribution / service in the US and word is that it’s kind of a labor of love to get their speakers over here, although some folks successfully have.

Good luck with your search!

If anyone is interested, here is the uncut version:

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/tekton-m-lore-speaker-review.48732/

You don't need to read many of the 137 pages to realize that, as is most often the case with real life, things are not 100% black and white.

ASR guy's narrative is fake...Only the Harman stuff (for which he’s a dealer for) is worth buying, apparently.

This is false, actually. In fact I just read an ASR review written by Amir himself that thoroughly trashes a Harman Group product. It was surprising too, because the Venu360 is generally well-regarded by folks who do audio for a living. 

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/dbx-driverack-venu360-review-audio-processor.22497/

@deep_333

You’re asking me? Ask ASR, they wrote the tests.

Me, I’m against removing comments (not 100% sure you’re accusing me of it, but it sure sounds like it).

You write what you write because you think it’s valuable or righteous or smart or clever, and it deserves to be kept in public view for all to make up their own minds on the matter. If your prose gets binned, it’s not on me.