Tekton Open Baffle Speakers

@audioman58 I rebuilt my crossovers in my Tektons and indeed the parts are mediocre, but no more mediocre than B&W, Focal, or any other speaker under $30-50K. In fact, better than some. Tekton attracts tech savy owners who are eager to do such projects and there is a thriving community of Tekton owners who share info so more Tekton crossovers have been rebuilt than all other similar speaker combined.  

Mediocre crossover components are the $10,000 speaker market's dirty little secret.  

Claton Shaw may be a great designer but 2 way speakers are quite disadvantaged in obtaining a flat curve. He may do it. I haven’t heard his stuff.

Jerry

Tekton use lower grade parts , B&W 800 series use Mundorf top  silver gold oil caps which are very good , Magico uses the same caps.

@jaymark  +1 for Clayton Shaw's Caladan speakers. I heard them at Capital AudioFest and ordered a pair. Outstanding performance at an unheard of price in this century. I think Clayton is like the Henry Kloss of the 21st century. And he is a really nice guy.

@ricevs - I agree, all true but I would imagine that the cost of the speaker would probably rise and also not to mention improving with better drivers.  I am fan of field coil speakers and good ones are hard to find.  Your suggestion to build your own is also an excellent suggestion.

Happy Listening.

I have not heard the OB Tektons, but, I’ve heard their Double Impacts and Moab speakers and I think they sound good for their respective prices.
OB speakers can sound a touch thin in the upper bass and they typically do not go very deep (the front and back waves from the drivers are in phase at lower frequencies and cancel each other).  But, if you are not a bass freak, I think they can sound good.

As to crossover parts, most speakers don’t have really expensive capacitors in them, but that does not necessarily make them sound bad.  There are even expensive parts that certain speaker designers don’t like.  I know a custom builder that thoroughly hates Mundorf caps—he can hear a speaker or amp and know it has Mundorfs in them.

I too like some field coil drivers.  That is why I would love to hear either the Pure Audio Project OB Quintet or Trio models with the optional Voxativ field coil midrange/tweeter module.  I’ve heard their non-field coil models and I have heard the Voxativ field coil driver in another system, and I am guessing that this would be a magical comination.