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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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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.
dbass
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Thanks!
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jtcf
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@listener111  to answer your question I ended up with the monitors because I was worried about wrestling around heavier speakers and having to ship them back if I didn't like them.Ha,ha,ha,ha!!I love them and they aren't going anywhere:)In hindsight a floorstander would have been easier to position with no stands to fuss with.

@dbass in my LTA I'm just starting to experiment with tube rolling.Last week I dropped in Sylvania AT7GTA black plates and am very pleased.The sound remains clean and clear but the musicians are more palpable now.There's more *meat on the bones*.Next up I'll try something new for the output tubes.I'll keep you posted with the good/bad results.
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