Zu Omen or Tekton Lore

B rodgers - The drivers are also Eminence. It is still a very simple design. He is telling me it is the next step up and very similar sonically to the LORE, but you know Eric - he does not want to get too technical on how he achieved this as it draws attention away from the end result.

I will surely let you know when I get mine. I am also very curious about how he achieved this.

I know which tweeter he is using in this model and it's a very good tweeter.

Again Gpowered ,some of us have a limited budget and just can not buy things on a whim . That is the only fact that I need to know . Sorry I don't drink the same Koolaid you do.As far as being happy , the Lores were a step backwards in that quest.

I saw it implied here that the new Lore (Pandragon?) has a "dedicated bass driver". That implies it is a three-way speaker and that is NOT the case - both FRD are run, well, full-range. It is a two-way speaker as is the Lore (or "augmented widebander" or FRD + tweeter or however you want to phrase it).

That comes from Eric.

Cwazz - Just curious, what speakers were you trying to replace with the Lores?
Has the bass improved any now that they have more hours on them? I'm in a small room so the bass is *almost* too much for me, but I did have them in a larger room (19 x 16 or something) and the bass was still pretty darn good. That was with a 100 watt tube amp (vs a 2A3 SET in my room).

I received the Lores a few weeks ago and am very impressed with their performance.

My room has poor bass due to room dimensions so I have added my REL Strata III sub, crossed over at a low frequency to avoid muddying the bass of the Lores. I find this fills in the low bass frequencies, impact, and weight very nicely. A subwoofer could be the remedy for those who like more bass.

Eric also mentioned to me that the sound of the Lore is often helped by putting them on hard platforms. This raises the drivers to a better position in relation to ear height for better coherence plus other benefits. My Lores were on a carpeted suspended floor and I put them on concrete flat blocks I already had from Home Depot. As a result, I now have deeper tighter bass, much better clarity, much better spatial information, etc. I found this to be a very significant improvement, providing much more of a "you are there" experience, and recommend this especially if you do not have a hard floor. Precise placement is needed to achieve the optimum spatial benefits. Precise in that 1/16" seems to make a difference. I assume there is better sounding material than concrete, but it is a very inexpensive way to test the benefit of this concept, just a few dollars. Plus I think it looks nice with my Lores in white satin.