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my own experience with Tekton Design

Extremely disappointed with the Dynaudio Contour 60s I bought 4 years ago, after owning for 2 years a wonderful pair of old Dynaudio Contour 3.3s ( poor fool, I thought I was upgrading), I decided to ditch the Dynaudios for something different. So, for the last 2 years, I have been one of the few Tekton Moab owners in Europe, I think. Already the first impression of the Moabs was very positive. I was still not 100 percent satisfied, but I was already much more satisfied than I was with the Contour 60s. After a few months I realized that something was wrong, and after some measurements that I shared with Eric (the owner and designer of Tekton) it was clear that one of the beryllium tweeters was slightly less performing than the other. Probably a problem caused by transportation from the United States to Europe. In any case I experienced in Eric great support, attention and kindness. Eric sent me a replacement tweeter that I personally assembled with very little effort in less than 10 minutes. 

And then wow! It was really a change from day to night. At first I didn't believe that a 15% less tweeter efficiency could make such a huge difference in presentation. But I had to believe it.  I listen mostly to classical, jazz, and ethnic recordings, so for me the most important characteristics of a speaker are timbre quality and soundstage accuracy. The Moabs offer all this naturally, effortlessly. I have no intention of upgrading to anything else. Thanks for everything Eric!

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@audioman58 10-4  @jayctoy yup, on Ulfberhts the crossover upgrade "at the factory" is a $2k line item.    

   

My x-over upgrade costed less since I have fewer drivers in my "half" Ulf's... my low ceiling drove the need for a shorter speaker.

 

I have the Impact monitors and really enjoyed the concentric mid-tweets around central single tweeter, so a custom order with Eric resulted in exactly what I wanted: 

 

Best speakers I've ever heard in my home (B&W, A/D/S, Martin Logan, Maggies).  So much non fatiguing resolution behind my Purifi class-D monoblocks, that I'm now doing a 3 way DAC+pre-amp shootout next week (Sim/moon 391, Wandla, T+A dac200) as I can finally hear a difference between my current DAs (Bryston SP from 15+ yrs ago, my Eversolo DMP, and a Gheselli) so I'm interested to see how things will sound with such a DA/pre combo.

I've worked with Eric pre/post impact monitor purchase and also this custom Ulf transaction. He's been solid and helpful.

 

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