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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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joeinid
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Bump for an update, especially @mac480025


last_lemming
638 posts
 
Smellman,

i own the exact Decware unit you speak of and it worked well with my Omen Def MK II’s, though it’s currently not in use.

tube rolling greatly affects the sound btw. 
billy777
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Good thread. Thank you to everyone who took time to contribute. I’m going to build the new Elekit TU-8600S once I receive it this summer and am reading through threads for SET compatible speakers. It seems that people prefer the 12” version to the 15” version for sound clarity but the reverse for efficiency. Please let me know if anyone is running a TU-8600 with these speakers. 
The other option at the moment is the Klipsch RP-600M per Herb’s recommendation. I have a SVS SB-3000 for the low end if needed. I tend to prefer full range or mostly full range speakers without a sub.

I have a positive experience with Tekton Designs. A while back, I purchased Right-Left-Center Lore 2.0 speakers for my small TV room setup with a Yamaha Aventage receiver. It sounded really clear and was capable of high volume. They appeared to have a modestly priced Scanspeak horn loaded textile dome tweeter instead of the Audax Gold on the baseline Lore’s. I gave this setup to my father for his home theater because the wife wanted a sound bar an wall mounted TV setup. I was really happy with the sound quality.

Billy
bradluke0
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I bought the original Lore's about 3 or years ago . I was shocked at what they could do with 17 wpc of triode power . Fast forward to last year ….bought a pair of Enzo 2.7's . They are amazing with the First Watt F6 , Cary SLP-05 and Ayon 2S. I really don't get the Tekton bashing on here , the bashers sound like they got their feelings hurt somehow. I have spoken with Eric 5 or 6 times now and he always is friendly and delivers what he says he will , he even sent me the grilles ( lol ) .  I was thinking of trying a pair of the Perfect Set's to pair with my Bottlehead 300b amps , however , I might build their Jager speaker instead . Cheers . 
newb2
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I see this thread is old , but... Can't speak for the experience of doing business with Tekton , but , I did copy/clone a pair of Lores . The drivers aren't what I would call cheap , 105 each woofers , 105 each tweeters. So  after purchasing all the materials for these you are over 50% of the cost . Not a high profit piece . They sound fantastic , I drive them with a late 70s Luxman integrated , have driven them with r1040 Luxman and late 80s Pass design with tube front.  they sound best with the  lower watt Luxmans , actually stunning at times.  To compare I have A-B tested them against to a pair of AAD 2001 monitors which are exceptional themselves and to my ear the Lore design betters them. 
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