Tekton Design's new THE PERFECT SET equals "goosebumps time"

Let me get this straight... If you don't like Tekton speakers, the buyer has to pay to ship them back?

And judging by the plethora of complaints on these forums, a far less than world class level of build quality and service. 

@cap 

You better watch your tongue there! Eric Alexander, in his sage management style, will slap you with lawsuits for pointing out the failings of him or his products. 

Snapsc,

Hardly any speakers that Stereophile measures are found to have sensitivity ratings outside the margin of error for the testing. Go look it up instead of making it up. 

I just read that patent. Looks to me like the guy is attempting to patent pretty much every variety of speaker that's ever been imagined except for horns. What an ego-stoking heap of word salad. I know you can say pretty much anything you want in a patent, but that is so loosely worded and illustrated that it could be construed to mean pretty much anything. I doubt it would withstand any level of legal scrutiny if it were challenged. If that represents the skill of Eric's "retained legal counsel", I don't think anybody has anything to worry about. 

This is the patent for Supersymmetry feedback. It's concise, well written, and clearly defines the subject to be protected with illustrations that cannot be broadly interpreted. 
https://patents.google.com/patent/US5376899A/en

Wow... Just wow. That's ridiculous. 

@waltersalas 

I just asked up there if the buyer has to pay to ship them back and the answer was yes, with the caveat that the refund gets dinged for dust on them! And judging by other posts that suggest the same, I don't know what you're talking about as far as paid shipping both ways. I guess you can't really call Tekton that company. 

As far as the companies themselves offering that, who cares??? Isn't that what a reputable dealer does? Some people seem to really got off on the exclusivity of unusual and unheard of brands that can't be bothered to actually distribute their products and think that intrinsically constitutes quality and value. Nonsense. 

Go read that patent. It describes about every variation on a box speaker ever built. 

@teajay 

There is a preponderance of posts strongly suggesting that Tekton speakers are poorly built and that customer service is very hot or miss. If you're going to call all those people liars, then you're obliged to prove every one of those posts is false. Good luck. 

Also, clinging to the claim that there's anything of wit or intelligence in that patent punches a big hole in your respectability. Go look at it if you haven't. The patent claims to protect any speaker design with multiple drivers in any configuration, including typical 2 way, 3 way, 4 way, and line arrays configurations. It's not with the electrons that produced it on my screen. 

@jetter 

I'd hardly call Tekton a model of success. Lots of companies doing what they do have gone a LOT further in the time Tekton has been in business. It doesn't seem they have achieved mass production. As for the patents, I only read the one, but if the others are that poorly constructed, they're basically worthless. 

I honestly couldn't care less if people are happy with how they sound. I looked over the DI thread and was surprised by what owners of the things said. One guy who had his pair for a year said they showed up with barely visible seams in the joint work which began to pull apart and become obvious as the speakers aged. That suggests they were built with improperly cured wood. You can't read that thread and ignore the problems people have with wait times on delivery, getting speaker grills, and poor build quality. 

I read reviews about Tekton speakers that sounded impressive before I ever came to this forum. I thought they looked hideous and was uninterested in dealing with the sales model. Personal preference. But then I came here and read post after post after post from people trying to get grills, getting grills with no way to mount them, waiting and waiting and waiting, and all kinds of other issues. The exuberance for these things seems completely out of proportion for what is basically a DIY product. I'm not asking anybody to believe me. Go do your own research and see the problems others have had. And don't go calling every one of those people liars.... That just makes you look like a fool. 

@ketchup 

I haven't heard of too many speakers pulling apart at the joints, but there's a guy over on the Double Impact thread who says the joints in his are pulling apart and cracking the paint enough he can see it from across the room. I don't personally characterize that as high build quality.