Tekton speakers with Ribbon / AMT ??


Anyone out there have any Tekton speakers with either ribbon or AMT tweeter?? Uruz owners perhaps?

I have finally decided to order a pair of Encore loudspeakers. Upgrading from the Double Impacts. 

I've been back and forth as to which speaker to order. Encore vs. Moab. vs Ulfberht......Well, I had a chance to talk to Eric at Tekton the other day. I asked about Beryllium tweeter on the Encore and he certainly can make that happen. At that time, he brought up the idea of using a ribbon tweeter.  I have seen zero examples of his larger speakers with that tweeter installed. He seemed very confident in the ability to integrate it into the design. I enjoyed the enthusiasm, so much so that it prompted me to go for it. Experimental blood in my veins I guess. 

That being said, I am curious if there are other individuals out there with Tekton speakers with ribbon tweeters?  and what their take might be. Impressions? Downsides? Yes, I realize the standard design is fantastic. But I'm a tinkerer at heart. Willing to try things unseen, unheard assuming the risk isnt too much. 

Eric said he could use two different brand drivers. Fountek, and Mundorf. Both very linear responses. Both something he felt very east to integrate into the current design. Mundorf being the bees knees, but at an additional cost. 


So, bottom line,  I gave him the green light to go to crazy and use the Mundorf driver and see what kinda unique loudspeaker he could create.  

Also, side note.....I guess a true ribbon tweeter is not exactly AMT?? Casually interchangeable terms? Not exactly sure the specifics as to why thy aren't the same.  

But I'm so damm curious how he can integrate this into his current Encore design that I'm willing to try it out. 

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Showing 4 responses by millercarbon

Never say never, but from everything I have seen you're never gonna be hating it. Whatever you get, you're gonna be slapping yourself its so good. What he's done with that MTM array is taking things to another level. So can you do even better with better drivers? Sure. But the majority of the magic is there in the MTM array.
The most experienced person with these I know is teajay, and he talked me out of the Be tweeter. Not that it took much. One of the many beauties of the design is the organic continuity of using the same driver over so much of the range. Essentially everything from the midbass on up is done with the same driver. If a Be tweeter is used that will be a different sonic signature and so as teajay said better to be all cloth.  

I would only consider the Be tweeter if using it across the whole MTM array. Eric swears doing that with an Ulf and you have a speaker as good as any in the world. But again that is using Be across the whole MTM array, not just the one tweeter. He may be right but its beyond my budget. But you can try it and let me know!
He's been slammed with orders pretty much nonstop for at least a year now. Summer usually is slower but not this year. 

My Moab story started similar to yours only with the better Ulfberht tweeters. All was fine until build day and the reality hits that any one different thing like a tweeter requires a complete redesign of the crossover network.  

In hindsight I was a fool to believe anyone even as fertile a genius as he is can just slap some new tweeters in and have it be better like I imagine in my naive little mind. That one little change means a significant re-engineering of crossover network, not to mention baffle and bracing. Inside mine at that same location is a brace that fits right around the tweeter. Different tweeter, different brace. On and on the ripples flow out from this one seemingly simple change. 

I would get the standard parts upgrades. Caps, wires, binding posts. Leave the rest alone. When you hear them you will know why. Freaking awesome. 

Let us know what he says two months from now when he's actually getting ready to build them.