Tekton Double Impacts

FWIW I have had set of Tekton Brilliance speakers for about 6 months now.  I am running a Dennis Had Inspire LP-2 Pre and Dennis Had Inspire HotRod SEP Amp with KT tubes (currently KT-150s).  Fed by Sonos into a Shiit Bifrost Multibit and an iTube.  I also put a subwoofer in the system with the cutoff at 50hz.  About 1/3 of my music is lossless and the rest... not so much.

I love the sound from this system.  Big sound stage, great clarity, plenty of power and a very musical feel to the whole thing.  I listen to a lot of jazz, alternative, classical, and a bit of rock and it all sounds great.  I ran it with out a sub for maybe 5 months and it was great, but the sub gives it a bit of extra at the bottom that I like, but I think that's really a personal preference thing, you don't need to have a sub with these.

I went with the Brilliance after a bunch of conversations with Eric at Tekton.  I could not really fit the DI's into my room from a decor standpoint and after we talked through what I listen to and where I was heading from a system standpoint he suggested the Brilliance over the Impacts or the Electrons.  I have not heard any of those, but a friend of mine has a set of Lore's that I listened to before pulling the trigger.  Compared to the Lore's the Brilliance are a similar animal in my opinion, just... more.   All I can say is I'm very happy with them. 

Mazikrav

What do you think the Brilliance PMDs will offer for the extra $7k?  I'm curious what Eric has to say since there isn't anything much on the website.

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Mazikrav

My setup is in my living room and would not be categorized as a "listening room".  There is an assortment of random couches and so forth kind of in the way.  The room is about 14x24ish and I have the speakers set up along one of the short walls.  They are about 2 feet each way from the corners.  My sub is about 40% of the way along that same short wall.  It's an old NHT that I had kicking around.  The amp for the NHT allows me to cut out the signal above 50/80/100 hz.  I found 50 hz was the best setting.  I listen about 10 feet from the speakers and have them toed in to cross about 3 feet behind me.  Despite the furniture etc, there is a pretty clear path from the speakers to where I listen, so it works out well.  My neighbor across the way is a bassist and jazz nut and I had him help me dial in the settings.  It's possible bourbon was involved.  I am not sure if I'd need a sub with a different amp.  I'd be neat to hook up a big SS amp sometime and hear that.

I really like the way these sound.  My neighbor and I go to the local jazz fest during one week in the summer and this year we would go hear a few acts and then do an "after event decompress" with my system and listen to some of the same acts we had just heard live.  It's not "live" but its pretty good.  That was before I put the sub in the mix, I can't wait to do it next year.

FWIW I'm also in the group waiting for grills...

Mazikrav

I'm excited about hearing what the PMDs are like!  Let us know.

Ah, vicarious living...