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Tekton Design's new THE PERFECT SET equals "goosebumps time"

Just got in house for review for hometheaterreview.com Tekton Design’s new, The Perfect SET, which is close to 100dB efficient and never dips below 8 ohms, which Eric built to be used with SET "flea watt" amplifiers. It is a front ported design using a 12 inch woofer and his patented array of small transducers that function as a midrange driver with a single tweeter in the middle. I set them up in a system with a great 2A3 SET amplifier and found them so superlative I did not stop listening for over five hours! Taking about "goosebump time" the music was so beautiful that
I lost track of time.

These speakers have all the virtues of the other Tekton speakers, speed, utter transparency/micro-details, great soundstaging, and that special "aliveness" that I experience when I listen to my Ulf’s. What really amazed me was what the Perfect SET was delivering on the bottom end frequencies, subterrainian/taut powerful bass, that was shaking the room, all coming from at most 2.5 to 3 watts.

If you love SET amplifiers this speaker is a match made in heaven, and remember this pair just arrived and is not totally burnt in yet.

teajay
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corelli
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Thanks guys.  Will check it out.
dbass
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@teajay 

THANK YOU!!  Your passion, knowledge, and willingness to share has been instrumental in my ability to figure out what to do with a new system purchase.  You made me aware of both LTA and Aric Audio whom I will be buying one of their integrated/amps (MZ3 vs 300B SET).  You answered my key questions on PS including their ability to sound great at low volumes and that the PS can be driven very well by the MZ2.  So now the rest is on me - which sonic flavor do I want  MZ3 or 300b?  I am just not ready to spend the money for the MZ3 to drive the 300B amp.

1 question - do you have any tube recommendations for the MZ2/3?  And has tube rolling made a difference?  I wonder if there is a way to get more meat on the bones if I decide to use the MZ3 as an integrated amp with the Perfect SET speakers.

Again thank you very much and please continue the great service you provide to our community.
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grannyring
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@jayctoy 

I am confident you are correct. I want to build a couple of SET amps and these speakers would be the perfect sandbox for me to play with them in....as well as my current tube amp. 
teajay OP
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Hey dbass,

First, thank you for the kind words.

My favorite tubes in the LTA are NOS TongSol black glass oval plate 6SN7s and NOS Genelax yellow label 12AT7's, these tubes just creat beautiful music in my system.
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