Big for a reason: Tekton Impact Monitors 

Are you assuming you need a warehouse for speakers of this size? My infinity QBs from the 70s were larger than these, most floorstanders are larger than these. It's all about how you set up your room and where your priorities lie. If you have an apartment/condo, you may not need the dynamics here, but most houses could easily fit a pair of speakers this size into a living room.

Don't forget JBL. I saw a pair of 4311s in a Geico commercial today. Paused it and just stared.

well said

Eric Lubow I have noticed that too, and wondered if I was just imagining it. Glad to know I'm not the only one. : )

Dirty power during the day. Depends on your area, but you'll be feeding your system much cleaner power in the later hours.

"Dirty power" LOL. I'm sure there's all sorts of "dirty power" happening at night, but this is a family friendly channel. Seriously, unless you live in a factory district and do _nothing_ to address an actual problem, it's total BS. What's real is the relative quiet of the nighttime. There's also a psychological element to having uninterrupted solitude. One thing I do as a matter of routine is keep volume levels at a bare minimum for most things, like watching the TV or computer. It's like a contest to see how low I can turn down the volume and still make out what's being said. What I've found over the years is that my hearing is best when I'm fresh from a long and restful sleep, regardless of what time of day that is. As my "day" wears on, I need to turn it up. By bedtime, I typically need +8 dB over what I could get by with when I was fresh. That suggests that those who like listening to quiet things should listen right when they wake up. If you listen at night, be aware that just being tired can have the same effect as drinking. Though you can turn it up to compensate for dulled senses, hearing damage happens at the same levels, so be careful.

I love to listen at night too...totally "black" room where all sources of light are eliminated. I'm talking blue tack on all power indicator lights, black shades over the window (basement listening room with one well window). The kind of black where there is no difference between eyes shut and eyes open. The connection to the music to me is heightened considerably!

Get a Greenwave Broadband EMI meter and you will know whether the power is cleaner or not when it sounds better.

I also have the lore reference and absolutely love them. I was gonna buy the golden ear Triton seven's but after a demo the highs were just to bright so I bought the lore's, best decision ever and at half the price. Oh and after my dad listened to them he bought a pair of Pendragon's AND Enzo's.

divertiti love the B&W 705 S2s, so would also like to hear Steve’s thoughts on your question. Did you go with either of these or something else?

53patsfan Actually, you might be surprised. I’ve exchanged emails about my gear with Albert Von Schweikert, Bob Carver and the legendary Nelson Pass. Audiophiles are some of the best people on the planet. Hence these great little vids from another legend among us old audio gear-heads.

$250,000 for an amp!!! He doesn't have to reply to too many :) Cynical- not me!

Yup, it's hard to beat size, law of physics.

I am with Mike on this. I too have the double impacts and forte iiis on my short list. I'm unlikely to personally hear either until they are purchased.

You can find Klipsch dealers to demo speakers.

Have you ever heard the Klipsch Cornwall iii's? Just wondering if you might have some information on the differences. Thanks

More realer and more fuller than real life itself? 😳

Thanks

I pay the family subscription fee, so I won't see ads unless you put them directly in the video, but you'll get a tiny cut of my monthly fee.

He is asking people to become Patrons for as little as a dollar a month to keep the channel ad free!!!!

For now I'll stick with Patreon, it's super easy to make a pledge for $1 or more a month.

I'll happily donate as I haven't found content like this anywhere else.

How big is your room?

That’s funny! I had a pair of Altec A-7 Voice of the Theater speakers for not enough years once. We ended up downsizing and unfortunately I just didn’t have the listening room for them anymore. Damn fine speakers and I miss them to this day. Now I have a Klipsch Reference Premiere system including a pair of those “skinny” RP-280f’s. They do sound pretty 👍 nice though along with the rest of my system but yeah I still miss my A-7’s...

The reason these skinny speakers lack bass is the physics and we call it baffle difraction it's when the speaker goes from 2 pi to 4 pi meaning 180 degrees to 360 degrees polar pattern. This phenomena can be corrected in the crossover but at a 6 dB decrease in sensitivity. It's all about the wave length in regards to the shortest dimension of the speaker baffle that determines at what frequency this -6dB/oct slope occurs.

Yes music first, wife third after music again.

I had some nice bigger speakers (older Energy C-9 and C-4) that, at the request of my wife, I swapped for some pretty decent small bookshelf speakers. Because she never liked listening to music very loud I thought the bookshelf speakers were fine. Well we got a divorce and I swapped speakers again and started listening to things loud and oh my God I never knew what I was missing. Never again.

@@cuchanu Good argument against marriage imo ;-)

Optimize, We ship your way all the time. Please call me or email anytime. Eric Alexander - Tekton Design

Dragan Antonijević I would think this is about right otherwise the only sweat spot would be head on. I've designed some with the 3 tweeter "array" and even with them as close as possible (they were .75 tweeters with no flange) you could hear the phasing unless the surrounding tweeters were crossed at the right wave length. Plus they can be crossed over lower than normal as each is only has to do a fraction of the work

Yes. Correct. 7 powerful motors driving a featherweight 1/3 of a gram (moving mass) piston easily outperforms a single 8" mid-range (that's the diameter of my "polycell array") with 15-20 grams of moving mass. Eric Alexander - President, Tekton Design, LLC

Eric Alexander I like that your so up front about this and not trying to sell snake oil, hope I get to hear them some time soon, don't know if you were at axpona, I only live a couple hours away from chicago but missed it this year.

Eric Alexander, What are the tweeter crossover frequencies? I'm guessing 680Hz (Fs) for the six outer tweeters, and 10,000Hz for the center tweeter?

Tekton Design = Good Design!

Hare deLune wow, my wife bought twenty years ago! So I have no clue where it came from.

Steve Guttenberg Audiophiliac O.K, thanks anyway. : )

Mark Fischer You're correct, my bad.

Derik Taylor good question buttt... these

@@dilbyjones you've heard both?

StringerNews1 don't think it can cheat the physics. As Dragan in the comments below has speculated.

Sorry to see this on here. Nothing "nonsensical" happening here at Tekton Design, LLC. Some basic acoustical physics and a tape measure is all anyone needs. For the record: wavelengths shorter than center point to center point within the 'polycell array' are transitioned to the center tweeter. The result is comb filter mitigation ("interference patterns") and fantastic sound. Eric Alexander - President, Tekton Design, LLC

Attainable Audio, it looks like we're getting into Bose 901 territory again. A driver that is efficient in one passband, but whose response drops off rapidly below say 2 kHz isn't going to magically become efficient at lower frequencies just because you put a bunch of them together. You could add lots of EQ to boost the midrange and mute the treble, but then you have a system that's half-assed in both ranges. For the same price you could put in a nice 5" cone that has the suspension and area to move air at the midrange frequencies efficiently, and a tweeter that is free to do what it does best. I've heard a lot of really great speakers built around a 5" cone midrange. If it ain't broke...

I can only hope that Eric Alexander has no engineering duties at Tekton, as his dilettante (mis)understanding of the fundamentals is glaring. As a former (analog) TV engineer, I'm well familiar with comb filtering, and with multi-bay antennas that use constructive interference to good effect. They're totally different things. You don't need my level of expertise to know that it's the _quarter_ wavelength that matters re con/destructive interference. That's high school physics class stuff.

StringerNews1 I will not compare them to Bose or speculate on how they sound as I've not heard them. I HAVE done a few designs with multiple tweeters myself and will say your right about the off axis destructive interference, which of course I knew going into it and which also happens with a 5" cone speaker as I'm sure you know from the physics stand point, it was more an experiment for me to see how the sound would change listening on axis... and yes it did, it became more "dry" as you had less power coming from the near field reflections.

Sorry, I have no clue, other than to say the retail price is set by the record company.

Blessing in disguise: the record companies get "obsolete" CD's out of their warehouses and you get a backup to your digital files.

The ostensibly hi-rez download sites are justifying the price increase as "more bits, more dollars". While that would be fine if they actually were making new transfers from analog tape or the actual hi-rez studio digital mixdown. But it seems that many of their titles are just CD rips that are padded with garbage bits. This is akin to buying food by the pound that's been injected with water to make it heavier. After all those RIAA lawsuits, one thing that emerged was that the industry wanted to get a law outlawing fair use. They didn't get that law, so it is perfectly legal to rip your own CDs for personal use, just as we have been transcribing records to tape in decades past. The key here is that you must own that physical copy for fair use to apply. If the industry had their druthers, they'd only sell inferior copies like MP3, with some sort of DRM, and charge you full price.

StringerNews1 Too true. : /

This is why I keep saying that we as customers need to speak up for ourselves. The only sure way to get nothing out of a deal is to ask for nothing. Doing anything is better than doing nothing.

Bowers & Wilkins (B&W) speakers are often described as sounding overly bright and harsh sounding in the upper range.

See, I love B&W’s crisp sparkling sound signature. The few other high end brands I’ve heard so far sound muddy by comparison, like they’ve been covered by a blanket. I’m new to this hobby, and I’m already finding the level of subjectivity involved a little frustrating lol...

they are on the thumbnail, and check the Tekton website.

Sorry, I have not heard their subs. Not in the cards for me

@@SteveGuttenbergAudiophiliac Thank you sir.

Only the middle tweeter is used as a tweeter. The others are the midrange. It's a 3-way speaker.

Contempt prior to investigation

No, Maggies are dipoles, and have 4 foot tall ribbon tweeters, so I don't see any similarity.

Steve,which of these two speakers do you like the most?

AudiophileTubes, were you thinking of the Quad ESL63 perhaps?

Incorrect. This is new technology. McIntosh uses arrays of tweeters (I've even worked at the factory where the McIntosh tweeters are built) and that is where the similarities between McIntosh and Tekton Design END. Eric Alexander - President, Tekton Design, LLC

Dynaudio has also been using multiple drivers for years.

adam brown, well there's lots of 'Evidence' to support that statement.

@@TektonDesign According to McIntosh, they use the following drivers on their XR100 speakers: - one 3/4" titanium dome tweeter, - ten 2" inverted dome midrange drivers (8 Inverted Titanium Dome Midranges covering 300Hz to 2kHz, and 2 Inverted Titanium Dome Midrange-Tweeters covering 2kHz to 8kHz), and - four 6" cast Frame Poly Cone woofers. So basically, you're either wrong or lying.

If they were considered prior art, he wouldn’t have gotten the patent 🤷