Tekton Brisance


Hi audiogon,
The Tekton Brisance seems too good to be true coming with 18"woofer and two harmonic transducers with a DSP controlled 2500 watt included (probable class D) amp at $2,000. Any y'all hear this sub in person? I have a pair of Moabs on order and am thinking of getting a sub to fully flesh out abilities with electronica music. 

protoss71

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Millercarbon,
What is a DBA? Digital equalization? I do use the equalizer in iTunes with good results. I would not have a subwoofer without DSP now that I have gotten used to my Velodyne DD10 (now broken), it really evens out the bass in the room. I ran my main speakers through the 80hz filter and let the 10" servo controlled, acoustic suspension, 1250W handle the low frequencies. It seems as though going up to 350hz would allow localization of the sub, causing soundstage balance issues (unless I got two subs, but two 18" subs with 5,000W of power just seems out of bounds for an 11x16' room, lol. 
After doing more research, a distributed bass array seems like a much better idea than a single huge subwoofer. I’m surprised I have not seen anything about this before. The price of the audio kinesis swarm seems reasonable for four passive subwoofers and an amp. 
prof,

"Is there any speaker company pumping out as many models as Tekton?
Dunno if that's a good or a bad sign."

I would say it is a marketing sign. Once the manufacturer finds a winning model with, like the Lore that has been around for awhile, then why change it, like Harley Davidson and their styling of the bikes.  However, to capture new market, produce new models.  Does not mean the older models are obsolete. Eric probably just waits until there is a build up of orders for a certain model then produces them all at once.  Economy of scale comes to mind. I have never heard a Tekton model, but anxiously await my charcoal grey Moabs! :)