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| Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions I'm so excited to get John on this thread! I'm totally stoked you're getting the TDAI -3400! I can't wait to hear your listening impressions! | |
| Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions @waltersalas I only know of one other person, (John Jonczyk) who pulled the trigger on the Encores via fb after having owned the Double Impacts SE. He probably will get them before you and will definitely post about them hopefully here or on the f... | |
| Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions @waltersalas Congratulations on getting the Encores! I'm sure you will love them as much as I love mine. Let us know your impressions when you get them setup.Jonathan | |
| Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions @shadorne Yes the Dangerous Convert 2 was extremely competant and yes I did connect both dacs to the HPA4 via balanced and used HT BYPASS on the input and ensured the internal dac2 jumpers were set to zero db. I spent 2 days swapping from source ... | |
| Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions @david_ten Benchmark HPA4 and AHB2 are going back. The HPA4 was very good, but I've been running source direct out of a Benchmark DAC for 20 years and for me I feel like putting a preamp in between the dac and amp just robs me of resolution that I... | |
| Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions I've only heard the upgrades DIs and the Encores. The Encores have everything I've ever wanted in a speaker. The 15 tweeter MTM array is incredibly detailed, coherant, and effortless with a electrostatic-like presentation with the dynamics of ho... | |
| Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions @teajay Couldn't agree with you more! | |
| Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions I'm not a reviewer, just an ordinary person, but you couldn't pay me to own Paradigm speakers because they aren't my cup of tea. | |
| Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions @charles1dad I think anyone who hasn't run source direct for 20 years would definitely love the HPA4 as a very cutting edge fairlt neutral preamp. It's definitely not clinical and in my system it seemed a touch warmer sounding, but I preferred th... | |
| Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions Well, after an all day affair of putting the HPA4 in and running source direct repeatedly. The HPA4 is going back to Benchmark.I'm very sad to say the HPA4 Preamp does rob me of some upper frequency sparkle and transient response. I've run throug... | |
| Best Preamp - NO preamp... (?) I'm currently auditioning the new Benchmark HPA4 preamp/linestage/headphone amp and my DAC2 HGC against a Dangerous Audio Convert 2 Pro DAC. I'm very sad to say the HPA4 Preamp does rob me of some upper frequency sparkle and transient response. ... | |
| Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions @lancelock Thanks for the comment. I think Benchmark should consider that since they are going after the audiophile market that maybe they might consider releasing an alternative version of an amp that’s less about specs and slightly more emotiona... | |
| Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions @charles1dad So I've been auditioning the Benchmark AHB2 amplifier, as well as their new HPA4 Preamp, and I've even been trying a Dangerous Convert 2 PRO Audio DAC just for comparison to Benchnark DAC2 HGC on the Encores. The AHB2 is actually very... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts @charles1dad i deleted that last post. It would appear I connected the right channel output to the HPA4 Mono output intended for subwoofer by mistake. So I was getting cancelation that was causing the awful sound.I will update with an accurate a... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts Btw, the Benchmark DAC2 HGC by itself was never dry, brittle, or overly detailed in my system running into my SET amp. Its was synergistic. |