sbayne
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| Tekton Double Impacts @teajay , @david_ten , @grannyring , @kdude66 , @mikirob , @jcarcopo, @grey9hound : Thank you for your valuable posts! Can you please post pictures of your systems in Audiogon’s Virtual System pages? ..... "A picture is worth a thousand words"@cha... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts @lak - Allnic equipment is some of the best available in my opinion. Your Allnic integrated, as you indicate, should drive the Double Impact with no problem. I've always been impressed with Montana speakers but have never heard the EPX. For me, th... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts @david_ten - I've gotten to know Vinnie Rossi over the years. He built a battery based integrated for me a few years ago that was excellent. I've heard his new LIO a number of times and can't help but think it would be a great match with the Doub... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts @jadedavid - Congrats on the purchase and +1 for taking your time with proper placement and break-in! | |
| Tekton Double Impacts @lak - " Ruggedly built weighing in at 50 pounds, this 35dB gain powerhouse will drive most speakers of 90dB + efficiency to very comfortable sound pressure levels."Yep, I think your last statement pretty much answered your question. | |
| Tekton Double Impacts @grannyring - "Great big amp world out there and I have certainly heard SS and hybrid amps with as much or more emotion, air, tone, color etc... as a DHT or PP tube amp. These comparisons should not be in general, but specifically as every amp sou... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts @charles1dad - "By the way I believe that your former Shindo Sinhonia would sound absolutely beautiful with your Double Impact monitors (but not declaring universally the best)"Ha,ha. No doubt. But the amps would have cost 5X as much as the speake... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts Statements such as SET are the best for emotion and solid state are best for bass slam/dynamics are WAY too general and are simply not correct. Sorry. I've owned or heard so many amps I know that's not true. The best amps I've owned were Shindo... | |
| Wine, audio, and music. How many of us Aphiles enjoy wine when listening to music? Wine with woman vocals. Whiskey with rock. Gin or vodka with everything else. | |
| Tekton Impact Monitors @david_ten - Thanks. I’m in North Carolina and was honkering-down for the tropical storm this weekend so I had some spare-time to work on this review. As to liking the higher powered amps a little more, I guess that is turning into a personal bias... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts @mazikrav - "Only a bottom feeder’s personal journey. It might be interesting to hear how others have reached the rarified air of electronics worthy of Tekton Design."Actually, aside from the comments about the Dynaco 70, I think this thread shows... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts LP - Once you get to a certain level of performance you begin to realize literally everything in your system can make a difference in perceived sound quality. However, fundamental design improvements (such as the Tekton tweeter array) is what prop... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts "The LTA kit is very responsive to tube rolling and they can be 'warmed/richened' up with alternate tube choices"Right, when I was turning to the Manufacturer Comments I was thinking Urban HiFi would say Herb Reichert should have rolled in differe... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts Thanks Charles. Helps a lot. Especially when you describe the MZ2-S as having a lighter, leaner, less tonal fullness/richness or color saturation/vividness than your Coincident equipment. I've heard Coincident used in a number of systems and was ... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts What is this groups general take on Herb Reichert’s (Stereophile) review of the Linear Tube Audio ZOTL40 Mk.II? He didn’t pull any punches which is refreshing, frankly. Overall, he thought it was a nice sounding amp but overpriced and a little lea... |