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Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions

I am the very happy owner of the first pair of New Tekton Design Encores and I thought I would create this thread to answer any questions anyone might have regarding the Encore speakers, room considerations, and associated equipment. If you’ve order your pair already, please chime in. I really want to hear what other people’s experience are with these unbelievable speakers.

I drive my Encores with both an Art Audio Diavolo SET 300b Tube Amplifier with 8wpc and I switch in my 700w Nord One-Up SE Monoblocks for non-critical listening and some big pieces of music that benefit from the extra power.



  • Made under U.S. Patent 9247339 with multiple new patents pending
  • Proprietary loudspeaker design
  • Ultra-linear frequency response with ±.5dB deviation from 70Hz-20kHz
  • One single crossover element placed within the tweeter path
  • Ultra-linear, entirely time-invariant minimum-phase mid-range section
  • Proprietary patent pending 15 dome radiating hybrid MTM high frequency array
  • Two 6.5" mid-bass patented ’overtone & harmonic’ transducers
  • Dual 11" low-frequency transducers
  • ​96dB 2.83V@1m sensitivity
  • 4 Ohm design for optimum performance
  • 20Hz-30kHz frequency response​
  • Dimensions Width 13.25" x Depth 15.25" x Height 62"
  • 800 Watt power handling
  • Weight 175 lbs​
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sid-hoff-frenchman
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Yes, I can report that the monoblock Aegirs have powered the Encores without any problem, until today. I was playing a the Taiko group Kodo's album Ibuki and had the volume up to about 85-90 DB. This is a really bass-frequency-heavy album, and the biggest impedance needs happen in the bass region. After a while the Aegirs started briefly going into protection shut down. The album was fine at lower levels, and everything else I've played the Aegirs have been fine with, even at equal volume levels. I will still try out other pre-amp and amp combos down the road, but so far so good. 
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jcarcopo OP
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@sid-hoff-frenchman Another good one is Yim Hok-man "Poems of Thunder". That 10 minute track will put my Pass Labs XA25 into protection if I turn my DAC's volume up to -3db which, to be fair, is nearly wide open. So big Kodo Drums 🥁 really strain my amp at high volume as well. I consider this quite acceptable and normal considering it's a 50wpc Class A amplifier. Other than that one track I've not really had an issue except like twice on very high gain and dynamic recordings that I was playing way too loudly in the first place. 
sid-hoff-frenchman
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@jcarcopo That's good to know. I guess then the Aegirs are performing on par with similarly powered amps. I wonder if the protection is being triggered by impedance dips, or wattage needs?
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jcarcopo OP
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@sid-hoff-frenchman The Pass Lab engineer told me it was normal considering that deep bass uses 80% of the power of your amp. Sudden transients demand a lot of momentary current. My amp caps out at 10 amps current delivery. That isn't to say the impedance doesn't dip lower as this may very well be the case, but the engineer I talked to said I shouldn't be concerned and said the amp was operating normally considering the source and average load. I don't think it's impedance related because I did try an autoformer on the Encores set to 2x to raise the average impedance of the speaker to 8ohm, but this didn't prevent clipping and I lost like 3db of max volume before the protection circuit kicked in as expected due to the fact that at 8ohms my amp was only delivering half the wattage. 
jsoku
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sid-hoff-frenchman
Thanks for updating us that the Encores work well with the Aegirs in monoblock mode.  That's good to know.  Are you satisfied with the sound or do you have any pangs of amp-upgrade-itis yet?
Can I ask when you received your Encores?  I think you said that you placed your order about 2 weeks after I did, so hopefully that means mine will soon be on their way to me.
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