Awesome.
Tekton are indeed transparent. Mine are the most transparent speakers I have heard, period. This as you alluded to makes them VERY hard to get a handle on. Because they are so transparent, every single record becomes its own little world or universe. Listen to just one it is easy to go away thinking they are forward, or like you thought too harsh or bright. Put another one on they will be recessed and rolled off. Only after a very long time does it sink in, this is not the speakers. This is the source material.
The way they are made and the way they look is a glass half full kind of thing. It would be nice if they were more elegant, beautiful. But then as you say, the money it takes to do that has to come from somewhere. It comes right out of the sound budget. So you can have eye candy or ear candy, never both.
Love the way you talk about them disappearing into the room. Everyone here including the women notices this. I think part of it has to do with the array, the way the sound comes from a larger area.
But at the same time if you look at your DI, notice the array is flanked by mid-bass drivers. Only the center driver is a true tweeter. The array handles midrange. The mid-bass drivers lower midrange and upper bass. This configuration is in effect a large co-axial driver. In terms of frequency it is a coaxial driver. But a very large one, the sound emanating from a larger area. I think all these things work together, along with superb transient response, to produce that feeling of disappearing into the room.
Whatever it is or however it happens I know what you mean, it is remarkable. We had some little monitors here, very expensive ones too, exactly the sort of thing we are all told disappear better than big speakers. Not when the big speakers are Tekton Moab! The Pendragon XL I heard were similar. My guess is so much of the magic comes from the array, DI are even better.
Thanks for taking the time to write it up. Thanks for being willing to subject yourself to all that. And now, I hope you bought the Costco size Orville Redenbacher, yer gonna need it!
Tekton are indeed transparent. Mine are the most transparent speakers I have heard, period. This as you alluded to makes them VERY hard to get a handle on. Because they are so transparent, every single record becomes its own little world or universe. Listen to just one it is easy to go away thinking they are forward, or like you thought too harsh or bright. Put another one on they will be recessed and rolled off. Only after a very long time does it sink in, this is not the speakers. This is the source material.
The way they are made and the way they look is a glass half full kind of thing. It would be nice if they were more elegant, beautiful. But then as you say, the money it takes to do that has to come from somewhere. It comes right out of the sound budget. So you can have eye candy or ear candy, never both.
Love the way you talk about them disappearing into the room. Everyone here including the women notices this. I think part of it has to do with the array, the way the sound comes from a larger area.
But at the same time if you look at your DI, notice the array is flanked by mid-bass drivers. Only the center driver is a true tweeter. The array handles midrange. The mid-bass drivers lower midrange and upper bass. This configuration is in effect a large co-axial driver. In terms of frequency it is a coaxial driver. But a very large one, the sound emanating from a larger area. I think all these things work together, along with superb transient response, to produce that feeling of disappearing into the room.
Whatever it is or however it happens I know what you mean, it is remarkable. We had some little monitors here, very expensive ones too, exactly the sort of thing we are all told disappear better than big speakers. Not when the big speakers are Tekton Moab! The Pendragon XL I heard were similar. My guess is so much of the magic comes from the array, DI are even better.
Thanks for taking the time to write it up. Thanks for being willing to subject yourself to all that. And now, I hope you bought the Costco size Orville Redenbacher, yer gonna need it!
