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Tekton Design's new THE PERFECT SET equals "goosebumps time"

Just got in house for review for hometheaterreview.com Tekton Design’s new, The Perfect SET, which is close to 100dB efficient and never dips below 8 ohms, which Eric built to be used with SET "flea watt" amplifiers. It is a front ported design using a 12 inch woofer and his patented array of small transducers that function as a midrange driver with a single tweeter in the middle. I set them up in a system with a great 2A3 SET amplifier and found them so superlative I did not stop listening for over five hours! Taking about "goosebump time" the music was so beautiful that
I lost track of time.

These speakers have all the virtues of the other Tekton speakers, speed, utter transparency/micro-details, great soundstaging, and that special "aliveness" that I experience when I listen to my Ulf’s. What really amazed me was what the Perfect SET was delivering on the bottom end frequencies, subterrainian/taut powerful bass, that was shaking the room, all coming from at most 2.5 to 3 watts.

If you love SET amplifiers this speaker is a match made in heaven, and remember this pair just arrived and is not totally burnt in yet.

teajay

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david_ten
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FYI, for those of you into Linear Tube Audio amplification: the microZOTL MZ3 is now available.
david_ten
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I'd like to recognize and commend @teajay  for opening up his home and system to @jayctoy  and @1markr     

TJ did the same for me and it was a truly wonderful experience, highlighted of course by meeting TJ in person and getting to know him better... as well as having the opportunity to listen to his systems (as they were six months ago). 

I also want thank Bon and Mark for their contributions after listening to both of TJ's systems. Your posts have been extremely informative, insightful and helpful. Thank you!
david_ten
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@jayctoy   Congratulations. Can't wait to hear how it works out for you!!!
david_ten
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@jayctoy  Thanks. Sounds like you are in an exceptionally good place with your system and the Tekton Design PS12s.

On another note, you may want to connect with @corelli who recently posted about attending Axpona on the Double Impact thread.
david_ten
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@jayctoy   Do you have further updates on your Tekton Design PS12s? I think you should have over 50 hours on the speakers by now (?). 
david_ten
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@sthlm78 I have heard 5 Tekton Design speakers with the ’standard’ tweeter array drivers. Two were / are my own and I've lived with them for over 2 years. I have heard 1 Tekton Design speaker with the BE tweeter array (Ulfberth BE).

My next Tekton Design speaker will be : ) a BE tweeter array.
david_ten
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@sthlm78 You are welcome.

The Ulfberth BEs were in a ’smaller’ room. Their performance in this room surprised me and confirmed that they would work in my room (which is larger) and which measures 19 feet (front wall) X 26 feet X 9 feet.

Both Ulfberth, standard versions, I heard on separate occasions and in different systems were in larger spaces than the room the Ulfberth BEs were in.

I estimate the room the Ulfberth BEs were in to be approximately 16 feet (front wall) X ~ 24 feet (stairway to basement)) X 8 feet high.  Perhaps @audioezra @aolprodj @audioarchon @teajay can confirm (?)
david_ten
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+1 to the above from @corelli . Even less likely that folks, other than Eric of Tekton Design, have compared the 12 to the 15 directly.
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