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| Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions I meant do not use the tweeter adjustment binding posts located higher-up on the speaker. You can biwire the speaker to the same amp. You can not biamp the speaker to 2 separate amps to the 2 bottom pairs of jacks. You can use the 2 bottom pairs ... | |
| Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions @ceaglek2782 There’s no Owner’s manual. Just make sure you use the very bottom binding posts and you should be fine in terms of hooking them up. Do not biamp them, they are only bi-wireable to my knowledge.If you have further questions please let ... | |
| Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions @ditusa I own the Pass Labs XA25 and I love it. It’s the only solid-state amp that comes extremely close to a SET tube amplifier and it drives the Encores quite well. ☺ It sounds wonderful, especially in the midrange. It's a very special solid-sta... | |
| Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions @millercarbon Thanks for clarifying. I knew I was on the right path, but I'm glad you clarified this for me. 😉 | |
| Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions @charles1dad Charles I feel like a heretic buying the XA25! It’s the first solid-state amp I’ve owned that I actually was intrigued with sonically within a few seconds of hearing the vocals and midrange play even while it was cold right out of the... | |
| Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions @ditusa I drove my Encores to 94db peaks and 90db continuous spl from 10ft away with only 13 pc not 8wpc when using my Art Audio Diavolo. Tom Willis installed the larger power transformer modification to support a 300bxls tube. Rather than argue ... | |
| Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions @jsoku I have been running source direct from a DAC happily for 20 years! I did try a Ayon Audio Stealth DAC which has a Tube Preamp in it and I felt like it robbed me of too much detail. That's entirely up to you, some people like to fatten and s... | |
| Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions @jsoku I come from SET Tube Amplifiers for over 21 years. I love them for their glorious midrange. The XA25 was purchased from Moon-audio.com on a 30 day trial with a 10% restocking fee if I returned it, but my good buddy whose an audiophile said ... | |
| Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions @stereo5 Thanks for kind words. My apologies for any misunderstanding on my part prior, I wasn't trying to be dismissive and I didn't know you had heard the Pendragons or had a negative experience. I only can speak to the Double Impacts and the En... | |
| Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions @sedond The link I provided was provided from a friend who also owns the Encores who had taken his tweeter array apart because he's crazy. (He even sent me a ghastly picture with all them tweeters hanging out, I felt sorry for the array...lol). H... | |
| Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions @kingdeezie I just realized you said you do like nearfield. I think you would be okay, you just need to mess with the toe-in more aggressively. You should be okay technically. | |
| Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions @kingdeezie Well, I'm reclined at 10'. I'm at ~8' unreclined which is more intimate and revealing. The soundstage of course shrinks a bit though. 6' is pushing it, but not undoable. These aren't exactly bookshelves 😁, but maybe I'd call and ask Er... | |
| Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions @sedond You might very well be right on the tweeters for the Moabs/Ulfs since I’ve no idea, but I always wanted to believe he used better tweeters in the DIs SE vs the standard DIs, but I may be totally wrong because my memory is not very good. I ... | |
| Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions @kingdeezie I'm 10' away. | |
| Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions @stereo5 Touchy? I'm not sure what you read that you took the wrong way, but I think you're reading entirely too much into my reply. I would ask you to please keep politics out of the thread, it's off topic, serves no purpose, and just causes prob... |