Zu vs. Tekton? -- your comparisons on price, build, sound

@riley804 Good one --hoisted on my own petard -- and I deserve it!

Still, to defend myself, if you look at those results, there are not many thread starters with this comparison. So....

More, the reason I’m not just searching the forum is that there have been some recent upgrades to both, and also because there was a recent thread about high sensitivity speakers and low watt tube amps.

Still, good point and I suppose the best spanking for me would be for this to be the last comment in the thread.

Happy Turkey Day from a turkey!

@riley804 I'm really not about to change speakers. I did write to Jim Salk about considering making a more sensitive speaker. The problem he cites is accuracy. But he's thinking about it.

What I'm interested in is -- if you will -- the "tier below Devore" for sensitive speakers. I know folks love/hate Tekton, but since Zu is just down the road in Utah and is a similar kind of company and price-class, I'm wondering about them in comparison. Both those speakers can show up at The Music Room, to which I can drive and try out a pair.

Pretty sure I know his opinions on Tekton. 

OP, here. I took @grislybutter to be intending a claim that was missing two words. 

Here's the claim as I think it was intended: 

"20 dollars cables vs 2000 dollar cables *can sometimes* make the littlest difference"

This seems indisputable.

@larry5729 I bought a 14' length AP Crystal Solo Oval 8  single speaker cable from TMR for $600 and I paid the company $130 to cut it in half and re-terminate it. Brand new that speaker wire would have been $2661 as a pair of 7' cables. There are ways to get value without buying new. 

"Voices are split in prismatic fashion" is the nail in the coffin, IMO.

From another thread, re Tekton Moab: "Nice, plenty of positive things to say. However, it was quite obvious that the array adds convolution to the imaging, especially with more complex music. Voices are split in prismatic fashion and I could hear the grouping of drivers’ contributing to that….Frankly, for all the tweeters purportedly giving the Moab such incisiveness, not really. The 3" soft dome of [my Wharfdale] Opus 2-M2 to my ears in this system was much more precise and elegant, without the smearing of the multiple drivers’ launch….[Moab] does have a more stringent sound, and does not excel in that system at warmth, even though a relatively recent AR preamp and Pass 30.8 Monos were in use. The bass was ok, but certainly not overwhelming in terms of impact or tonality. For $4K some good scale, acceptable presence and impact; reminded me of a low to mid line Magnepan or Vandersteen, a bargain, but with idiosyncrasies." 
https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/my-take-on-the-tekton-array-experiences-to-date

@larry5729 i thought you had Salks! Did you get rid of them and if so how come?