Tekton design makes audiophile/hifi speakers like the Tekton double impact and Pendragon that sound high-end without the frills associated with high-end spea. Rated 5.00 out of 5 based on 5 customer ratings. I will not name brands as that just is not my style. I think it would be a real shame to miss out on everything these can do if there's a chance something is not right with yours. Speaker he reviewed sounded good except one area of frequency. However, when I want to crank it up, they respond like a Ferrari! The rest no excuse. The Impact Monitors can summon fury like the Heritage Softail next to you at the intersection and deliver to you to your musical destination like a magic carpet ride on the open highway. I never thought that I could ever experience this type of satisfaction. Trump is a forward-looking progressive and Romney a luddite. Basically perfect. These are attributes normally only found in speakers costing ridiculous amounts of money and even then there are no guarantees. Very Disappointed with Tekton Double Impacts - Audiophile Style The bass is the best I have ever heard and its not even close. I have tried close to a dozen other speaker brands (Klipsch, Martin Logan, B&W, JBL, Monitor Audio, Tannoy, etc.) If your Double Impacts lacked bass,richness, and projection, something is very very wrong. I have owned speakers from KEF, Monitor Audio, Magnepan, GoldenEar and others. Eric, i received my double impacts today and I am amazed. Sine wave tests with a decibel meter show a startlingly flat bass response at my seating position even though the back of the speakers are 10 inches from the back wall. The sound was 3D in nature. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Expect sound like Wilsons, Focals and Magico for 1/10 of the price. When you boil it down, I bought them on what reviewers had to say. . "The moving mass (the string weight) for the violin note 440Hz is 1/3gm. I told Alexander how I imagined that every loudspeaker cabinet is like a piano's soundboard: Regardless of how thick or thin, heavy or light, braced or unbraced, it will contribute to the overall tone of a loudspeaker. "The seven tweeters are oriented in what I call a 'polycell array.' The woofers and tweeters all incorporate copper-clad, aluminum-wirewound voice-coils to further reduce the moving mass of the system. There was no treatment to the room at all, the electronics were Parasound. An HP computer could run in a tent in 110 degree F temps when the IBM PC would shut down before temps reached 90. The best thing I can say about them is that I really like them and hope that your company does well, so that more products like the Double Impacts will be available to us all. I had also experienced a prior improvement in clarity and soundstaging by re-terminating the speaker cables to eliminate signal-thru-solder. I originally was drawn to the Pendragonsbut the reviews online were either These are beating speakers $10-20k over their price! Or I hated themcompletely incoherent bombastic mess. I use to audition speakers and Ive been listening to them for more than 15 yrs now. Otherwise this could at best be called a two and a half way. Speakers: Tekton Perfect SET 15, Tekton Lore, Magneplaner .7 Interconnects: Morrow Audio MA1, Vermouth Audio Black Pearl, Audioquest Evergreen But before that let me quickly describe my speaker journey over the last 13 years. Here is a link to my review of the Tekton Design Double Impacts, and a second opinion from Positive Feedback's Victor Chavira. ", "I found vocals that were tightly focused and real sounding, small details like breath inhales were evident, the stage was wide and deep and the sense of hall was present in The Trinity Sessions, orchestral bass drum pressurized the room easily and drum kits had nice impact on my chest, and dynamics were startling. Phew. I want to leave you guys (Eric and Karma) with a few words of my feelings toward the Double Impact speakers. "[] these are my new references. Thanks for making these incredible speakers, and for selling them at such a reasonable price point! They are amazing speakers, totally full range, seemless from top to bottom with lush midrange and airy highs.but once again they lacked that dynamic slam I grew accustomed to with the Enzos. They weren't even taking requests in the Tekton rooms, just playing a canned set so they should have sounded impressive. Tekton Double Impact Loudspeakers - Positive Feedback Tekton's Impact Monitor is just under two cubic feet in volume, but right out of the box, sitting on Sound Anchor stands, the pair of them filled my 1400-cubic-foot room like much bigger speakers. When the loudspeaker system receives frequencies wavelength shorter than the distance between the tweeters' centers, we transfer the power to the center tweeter. They didnt project and when I hear the left hand on a Rachmaninoff piano concerto it had better have some umph. If you are making your decision based on sound alone in this price range, in my opinion these are the best speakers which is why I bought them and would highly recommend them to anyone who isnt a bass head. Tekton is a direct sale not through a distributor. I cant explain better other than to say, that when I listen to music and close my eyes, I can easily transcend to the source and even walk around the stage while the musicians play. I put the receiver on bypass, thereby terminating my two Rhythmik LVX12 subs. Tekton Double Impact Be vs. Focal Sopra No.3. This is an example from B&W: Your email address will not be published. So be wary of the type of music you will feed through these. Category: Full Towers | Tekton Design Dunlavy SC-VI speakers, monoblock tube amps that looked like jewelry, speaker cables as thick as my wrist, and a fully-treated, dedicated, audio-retailer listening room that had walls filled with sand. An 8 ohm version of the Impact Monitor is available on special request. Caveat emptor. If I turn it down to night listening levels the problem goes away, but for someone who has come to enjoy scale this is a bit annoying. I mentioned that I had been hunting for a pair of speakers for around 7 years because I didnt want to get a case of upgrade-itis after I heard something better. The response you got from Eric is indefensible, though many of these boutique speaker builders seem to have rather "unique" personalities to say the least. Before ordering, I did my homework and studied numerous reviews. Even at low volumes they are a pleasure to listen too and do not lose any Tekton's new Double Impact speaker features a patented design that uses 11 drivers in a four-way configuration. ". The mid-range is as advertised, just excellent with any material really. Category: Speakers Tag: TEKTON DESIGN Impact Monitor. It's a three-way bass-reflex design with a rear-firing port that loads two 6.5" mid/bass drivers and, yup, seven 1" fabric-dome tweeters. In my small apartment, the Tekton Impact Monitors, in their High Gloss black finish, looked much bigger than they had at RMAF 2017. el.innerHTML = "Loading"; The sound from these is excellent when material is above 40Hz with rock (Grateful Dead, Rush, Pink Floyd, the Cure, etc.)