Btw, my DI SEs are on order in high gloss piano black. Does anybody know if the midrange, tweeters, and 6" woofers are in a separate enclosure from the two 10" woofers? Do you think outboard crossovers will be offered in the future?
Tekton Double Impacts
Anybody out there heard these??
I have dedicated audio room 14.5x20.5x9 ft. Currently have Marantz Reference CD/Intergrated paired to Magnepan 1.7's with REL T-7 subs. For the vast majority of music I love this system. The only nit pick is that it is lacking/limited in covering say below 35 hz or so. For the first time actually buzzed the panel with an organ sacd. Bummer. Thought of upgrading subs to rythmicks but then I will need to high pass the 1.7's. Really don't want to deal with that approach.
Enter the Double Impacts. Many interesting things here. Would certainly have a different set of strengths here. Dynamics, claimed bottom octave coverage in one package, suspect a good match to current electronics.
I've read all the threads here so we do not need to rehash that. Just wondering if others out there have FIRST HAND experience with these or other Tekton speakers
Thanks.
I have dedicated audio room 14.5x20.5x9 ft. Currently have Marantz Reference CD/Intergrated paired to Magnepan 1.7's with REL T-7 subs. For the vast majority of music I love this system. The only nit pick is that it is lacking/limited in covering say below 35 hz or so. For the first time actually buzzed the panel with an organ sacd. Bummer. Thought of upgrading subs to rythmicks but then I will need to high pass the 1.7's. Really don't want to deal with that approach.
Enter the Double Impacts. Many interesting things here. Would certainly have a different set of strengths here. Dynamics, claimed bottom octave coverage in one package, suspect a good match to current electronics.
I've read all the threads here so we do not need to rehash that. Just wondering if others out there have FIRST HAND experience with these or other Tekton speakers
Thanks.
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I was hoping the tweeters, midrange, and mid bass woofers were in a separate enclosure. Clement Perry, publisher of The Stereo Times, provided a dose of reality for the many high priced speaker manufacturers in his show report on the Tekton DIs. See http://v2.stereotimes.com/post/rmaf-2017-page-4. |
I have the more powerful Ayon Audio Odin III Build 4 in my system. This is a 50 watt/ch Class A amp with 40 volts per SET tube x 4 tubes. It has tremendous bass, highly resolving, and more powerful and outclassed a high end 100 watt/ch monoblock amps I had in my system. I'm waiting to hear the Odin with the DI SEs I have on order. I've had two digital components and four amplifiers/integrated from Ayon Audio/USA Tube Audio. USA Tube Audio has always professionally addressed all of my questions and issues. The isssue were related to the KT-88 tubes that exceed their useful life but the newer Triton amps always provided feedback to let you know they were out of spec. The SET tube used in the Crossfire that Ayon manufactures inhouse has a much longer life (2500 hours vs 10,000). Go for the Crossfire. |
I know this is off topic but the internal parts quality are high in the Ayon Audio products (gold plated printed circuit boards, R-Core transformers used in digital units, high end capacitors, choke filtered, etc). I'm using the Ayon Audio S-5 Network Player/Preamp and I've had success when I added an Uptone Audio JS-2 linear power supply to feed a QNAP NAS drive, replaced the spinning drives with a single solid state in the NAS, added an SOtM network filter between the NAS and S-5, placed all digital components on SR Tranquility Bases, and upgraded the Ethernet cable to Revelation Audio Labs. kept the Ayon Audio S-5 and sold my fancy digital front end computer and never looked back. |