Interview with Tekton's Eric Alexander 

But if you disagree with the sound they seem to take legal action to shut you up!!! Erin at erinsaudio reviewed Tekton & apparently they threatened him with legal action. Buy something else guys. Don't let companies get away with this childish behaviour.

Eric threatening to sue reviewers again for honest reviews, why should people buy from or support a company that is threatening to sue reviewers because Eric ain't happy with others putting up honest reviews?

This guy threatens to sue reviewers - boycott the brand

I bought a pair of red DI's about six months ago and absolutely love them. Spoke to Eric a couple times on the phone before I ordered and he was always very helpful, never rushed in answering my questions and never tried to upsell. Soundstage is wide and quite deep and the mids are to die for. They really just disappear when you're listening to them. They're incredibly forgiving in terms of room placement and power needs. Out of the box they were very bright -- too much so -- but they settled down nicely after 40 hours or so. They're not a finicky speaker that needs to be six feet from a wall, toed-in at 15.587 degrees and only sounds good with classical or jazz or rock -- just plunk 'em down roughly where you want them to live and they'll take whatever you throw at them and make it shine. Female vocals with these will give you goosebumps. And for the loads of people who think Tekton speakers are ugly as all get out, I think they're some of the coolest looking speakers out there. The naysayers on the forums that throw Eric's speakers all kinds of hate despite never having heard them have no idea what they're talking about. Eric is really doing something pretty special out there in Utah.

Eric is definitely doing not only something, but a lot of things right. I’ve owned my Pendragons for over a year now, and have absolutely zero desire to upgrade. If I did eventually upgrade, it’d most likely just be to another pair of Tektons. They just sound right to me, and I love em! Thanks so much for this interview, Steve and Eric!

The Lores have given me so much joy over the years. The bass on them is so real sounding and visceral, not to mention it's other virtues....

I googled Eric Alexander’s crossover patent and it is pretty interesting. The two way crossover looks like a first order woofer crossover with a tweeter wired across the inductor. There is also a resistor wired across the woofer. Four parts: tweeter, woofer, inductor, resistor. That’s it. The patent also describes 3 way and N-Way crossovers based on the same design. The speakers are wired in series and in phase, I.e. the tweeter minus connects directly to the woofers plus. It appears that the speakers are part of the crossover network. Very clever, very simple.

Thanks for the terrific interview with Eric Alexander, Steve. I presently own a pair of Eric’s Double Impacts and Mini Lores. I acquired these based upon positive recommendations from you (Mini Lores) and Shawn at Zero Fidelity (Double Impacts). Both times I had the supreme pleasure of ordering and speaking directly with Eric. I took Eric’s advice and upgraded the caps, terminals and internal wiring on the DIs. The 8 ohm Mini Lores are driven by my DIY Amp Camp Amp and the 4 ohm DI’s are mated with a Schiit Aegir and I couldn’t be more delighted with the stellar sound from Eric’s brilliantly designed speakers. I am a now dedicated Tekton fan-boy as a result of my experience. Cheers, Steve!

I ordered the Moabs a couple weeks ago after listening to them at Tekton's shop- They are great sounding and Eric is most helpful.

It appears the company is allegedly taking a nose dive due to the public actions by the owner.

Love that Eric and Tekton are American made. :)

So thats the nut case threatening everyone under the sun with litigation?

I have had a large number of speakers over a long audio hobby. There have only been a few that have relieved the musical itch. I purchased a pair of Pendragons awhile back. They are very good. They work in presenting the source given to them. I have a desire to move to the Double Impact but they are just out of my old retired income range. Also my wife would kill me if I had 2 monster speakers in the house. Alas and alack.

Lirpa Labs is pleased to announce our newest Krakatoa Subwoofer, an infinite baffle design employing TARDIS technology. It contains four 18 inch drivers ln a cabinet measuring 7 ft. tall, 2 ft. wide, and 0.75 inches deep. Internal volume is currently unknown. We fired a measuring laser toward where the back wall should be on April 2, 2020 (April 1 is a company holiday) and have yet to detect a return signal.

Excellent interview.

I understand why people are mad at Eric & Tekton, but reality is that their product is extremely good, especially for the money. I don't think anyone can compete on a bang for the buck basis. I've heard 2 sets of Lores running with different electronics, and they're by far the best-sounding sub-$1500 set of speakers I've ever heard.

One of the best interview! No fluff. Just straight to the point! Good job Steve. Good job Eric. Tekton is certainly on my short list of my next speakers.

Great interview Steve! Eric seems like a great dude and super smart.

Great looking also important for great sounding speakers. These models comes in my list when Ever I look for upgrades, but never made decision on these due to boxy DIY appearance.

I love seeing and hearing about the Tekton speaker company and its founder. Eric seems very down to earth and passionate about his craft. I can't wait to be able to buy a set for myself. I'm not sure if I want a set of Lore speakers (only because I can afford them first), Pendragons, Double Impacts, or hold out until I can afford what I really want a set of upgraded Moab speakers. Someday in the not so distant future I will have my Tekton speakers and an Outlaw stereo receiver.

When I called to order my Double Impacts Eric answered the phone. I said “great, I went right to the top!”

Thank you - that was one of your best ones!

Can Tekton make a bookshelf version of the Lore Reference? Something similar to the Mini Lore Monitor, but with a more refined tweeter and less overall treble output geared towards the nearfield.

Got email from Eric this morning answering my questions about the SET 15, what a nice guy

Really cool interview and a great innovator.

Steve is a hoarder. Maybe its time to clean up that apartment !!! Thanks for the video.

I been following Tekton for a while now. I called them 5 years ago and it was Eric who answered. I was up front saying I was not able to buy now but I would like some information. Eric was awesome, he was not in any hurry and answered my question and added more info. Its been close to 2 years now that I own the Tekton Electron SE and even my wife loves them. That is how good they are. I am a big fan and I spread the gospel of Eric and his speakers. If I could i will have a pair of Moab's. By the way after watching the interview I got up and toed in my speakers.😄

I find frontported speakers are slightly easier to place (might not resonate as much with the wall behind? 🤷‍♂️). I also find that as long as the rearported speaker is twice the distance of the port diameter away from the wall, there is no exstra roomgain, and actually where they sound the best (I like a bit extra bass though 🤪 but it must be tight and presise). Really thinking about the Tekton Double impact, the ones above that, is also above my budget 🙊

Great interview, Steve. Eric is a really easy-going guy to work with. Lots of times when you call Tekton, he's the very person you will end up speaking with. I purchased the Pendragons this past year. They were the best speakers I have ever owned. The trouble is, I got greedy and wanted more. I sent the Pendragons back and got the Double Impact SEs. They are pretty great! If you want to know the differences between the two models, check out Jay's rundown of the two (over on Next Best Thing youtube). He pretty much nails it.

I am putting my ports on the top and the bottom. So there!

A lot of so called Audiophiles spout so much nonsense and misinformation.

Wow such a great guy Eric Alexander easy to talk to makes so much sense down to earth fantastic review and one of the things he's known for I spoke to him too before he picks up the phone so you can have a conversation with the Creator designer of a product is amazing

careful with that company, they are extremely nervous about their speakers.. The company needs to fix their internal issue before doing more harm to their customers.

What a great couple of guys! I am so happy I chose Tekton despite the negative forum speak that was going on back in those days. I just wish the DIs were around back in those days.

Wonderful wonderful interview. Very thoughtful and personable.

Several months ago I purchased a DSP and I had a lot of fun playing with Xover points and slopes with my VAF DC-X speakers I’ve had for the last 20 years. The DC-Xs are transmission lines using two six inch woofers and a tweeter in MTM and came with a capacitor in series with the tweeter. While I can improve _some_ recordings with the DSP, nearly all sound best with the original first order Xover with the addition of a small value resistor to tame the treble (my listening room is a bit bright). I’m 100% in agreement with Eric-a speaker is the sum of its parts and as simple as possible (but no simpler) is best.

The more tekton related videos i watch the more i want them. 🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤

This was a *great* interview

As a business owner... much respect for Eric and Tekton.

I love Tekton

Such good men.

Audiophiles overthink things?? Who knew? LOL Great interview Steve---i'm looking at the Lores.

The drivers are made where though? Just trying to understand if they’re custom designed in UT, guitar amp speakers from say Celestion type a thing, or..?

Will we have a revision of the Lore Reference?

Love my M-Lores.... but I dream bigger... MOAB!!!

Enlightening

Great video!

My BICs with rear ports can be 6 inches from the wall and pump out amazing room filling bass.

We need a part 2 9f this because he uses wavecor and sb Acoustics tweeters now and i doubt they play them down below 300hz more like 1000hz is more realistic

It’s time for side ports 😊

What a great interview.

He used to say those aren't tweeters, except the middle one, which is surrounded by small dome mids that look like tweeters, which all combined, function like a 2 way coaxial mid & tweeter. So now they are all tweeters?

Would love to hear this man's product! There's too many, and I mean way too many people over the years on the forums and on RU-vid that almost prove how good these speakers are for the money!🤪🤪🤪🤔😬 I never hear/ see anyone say, that his products are only decent! Well, except for Shawn from zero fidelity who had a slight problem a couple of years back with phasing or something like that and indeed the apparent small flaw was fixed!🤫😉😇

There wasn't a lot of detail on Eric's tweeter array, but to me it looks like a Nestorovic woofer system had a fling with a Quad 63 ;-)

I've been trying to buy a pair of Tekton speakers for over a month. Have been waiting for a simple email (shipping quote) for weeks. Need to employ a few more workers.. Never had trouble trying to give a company my money before!

The Audiophiliac, uses a crappy mic to present a video. Come on now Steve haha

The moving mass of the lower mids where the tweets takeover is the same MM as ONE of those tweeters. That is about 1 gram vs. 15-35 grams for a typical midbass/midrange. Martin Colloms stated that dome mids sound like electrostatics. With my Dynaudio D-76 domes they do! What I don't get is running those tweets far below their resonant frequency would normally boost the distortion way up, which is not a good thing.

Eric, are you doing any experimenting with open baffle designs? (Thanks for all your good work!)

Great technical education!

My experiences were different than Steve's.

Does this mean there will be a Tekton "LS35A" in the future?

Simple crossovers in speakers with complex driver arrays on the front. Somewhat of a contradiction to suggest you keep things simple ?

My new Lore Reference just don't have enough life at the top end. I wonder if the problem is with the source--Bluesound Powernode V2. Has anyone else tried this combo?

Great speakers, hobby-shop-like customer experience. Bought Tekton Brilliance. The good: Great sounding speakers - you hear the soloist right in your room, good sound staging. The Bad: - the speakers are very intrusive into your living/listening room, chunky, no-beauty-queen - had a terrible customer experience: credit card charged May 4th, the speakers shipped 4 weeks later, but NO GRILLES (that were ordered). 4 reminders and 4 promises to send the grilles "tomorrow" later we are on September 3rd with no grilles, and my kids are destroying the woofers. asked for the drawings of the grilles to do it myself DIY - not answer of any sort from the company. - the placement of the tweeters, mid-range drivers are NOT what the pictures on the website would show. the tweeters are above the mid-range and well above anybody's head-levels - about 9 inches above my listening level, and to get the best sound I need to stand up or sit on 3 pillows. No Bueno. When asked about the discrepancy between the pictures on the website and what I received, I was tersely told by a receptionist that that "this is the newest design". no less, no more. go figure. Summary: half-finished speakers designed, subject to change the design without the notice or explanation before they ship. If this is for you - then they do sound very good. But if you want the speakers that come to your home and just work as promised, then look elsewhere

Sorry Wish I had something good to say about this company... I don't. I had just Paid the most I'd ever Spent for a pair of speakers. I call them up and told them of my disappointment. He tried to up sell me and some drivers which would almost double the price. He told me he could not be assured that Would Receive the speakers returned in the same condition that he had shipped them. I knew that meant ,that he was going to deduct money if I even tried. I took a big loss and sold on eBay. So much for the hype! Keep up the good work Steve. I love your show.

getting sponsored vibes here

Boycott to this brand. That's not how you act. Now we know who is getting benefits from the brand.

Erick made hi end audio more affordable his like Costco of hi fi !

So the crossover has no capacitors?

My Amplifier gives 6 watts and it's a Decware SE34 in stereo 12 Mono.

I wd so love a pair of Moabs if I had the space...

Would anyone here suggest getting them in 4 or 8 ohms? Any other upgrade I should do???

Don't ever say anything negative about Tekton speakers - you might get threatened with a lawsuit.

Love your glasses

Great interview but I was a little disappointed because there was such scant information about the patent design and nothing about why it is supposedly superior in terms of acoustic characteristics.

Is it me ..... Or is he like super smart.

What if you put manufacturing of Tecton in Europe?

Nice guy.

Great interview. Also, I gonna stop obsessing about my DIs being too close to front wall. 😅

Eric's TV is too high.

Going on 3 years with Moabs, looking forward to having Eric build me some Signature Series for my next room.

there is one born every minute

Hey Steve do you stand behind this guy ? Unsuscribing...

So Eric doesn't think his other speakers are audiophile speakers. Interesting. I think he just talked me out of buying a pair of Moabs.

please normalize the volumes, Eric's voice has a lower gain compared to yours. The mic you use for recording sounds is a cheap one, so simple normalize function in your fav audio editor should make hearing the voices more pleasant.

Have to say you lose all credability when your bending over for manufacturers who only accept positive reviews. I thought they looked fun and cheap, with gorgeous paint jobs, then you see Erins in depth measurements and postive spin met with bullying and threats, shows Eric is nothing more than a dodgy two faced person to be avoided. Eric should be saying sorry to Eric and maybe actually listening to him, get his mass produced budget DIY pretend to be audiophile junk improved, cant take a word Eric says serioulsy, he goes tech talk but then you just remember his attitude and whining at negative reviews. Going on about feet while a picture of his speakers in your review on his website has no feet. Guy is untrustworthy, so is his product. Tekton speakers have never been audiophile, its always looked like a 90's DIY project range. An educated company owner who makes holes for feet to go through a cabinet. Yawn.

It's cool. Australia doesn't need a better trade relationship with the US. We've already got one with China! ...Because, that's going so well right now. *smh

seriously it's as low fi as air force one is to turntables

Even at 25 min, seemingly much too brief.

Ah yes, the Guttenberg finally interviews our friendly neighborhood hifi titan Eric. Guttenberg, you should only interview Eric Alexander, Andrew Jones and Danny Ritchie (GR research) from now on. Just say no to every other low aptitude clown.

Love your work Steve, but is there any chance you could clean up the place, just a bit? It's looking like you've gone full on hoarder...

I love him but why the hell does he get every screw and nail patented?? I don't understand that. You don't see Nelson Pass struggling to make a living and he runs the best DIY community on the planet. It's stupid. As if I were to patent my speakers as an intellectual property only because they use ONLY ONE part in the crossover. You didn't invent anything new, you just selfishly claimed it so you can bother other people if they wan't to do something similar

Steve , ask this guy if you blow up a tweeter should you change out 14 tweeters All both sides you would never change one side and think not to do the other side, That's why you stay away from this guy another thing port in front so wind hits you

Steve, your own sound quality is a disgrace here! Please gear up and put some effort to it, if you listen to Eric you have a good quality your voice is all over the place, most importantly the power level is not matched well.