Tekton Double Impacts

I have had a pair of Double Impacts gracing my living / listening / video room for about a month now. After reading each and every one of these posts and any all reviews I could get my hands on, I pulled the trigger and called Tekton in Utah to place my order. I was almost speechless when Eric himself answered the phone. After a brief discussion of my expectations, I followed Eric’s advice of the upgraded wires, binding posts and crossover. YES, these babies are very large and heavy. YES, they require careful setup. YES, they are everything you all have said of them. YES, the DI’s are the best sounding HiFi stereo speakers i have ever heard in my home in over 40 years of listening to reproduced music. As has been said, Double Impacts also require a seriously long “break-in” period before they really start to loosen up a bit and really sing. They can be driven to window glass breaking levels with my very modest NAD C-326BEE 50 watt integrated amp. I’m thinking of building a Nelson Pass 8 watt class A Camp Amp to use with these speakers. Anyway, there is nothing more that I can add that has not already been said!  I just wish to thank everyone here on this forum for their kind (maybe some not so kind) comments, reviews, appraisals, testimonials and experiences on these wonderful speakers. I am deep gratitude to all of you. 

Just a quick update on my DI’s (with the upgrade). The more hours these speakers are accumulating they continue to amazingly improve. I’m still waiting for the point in time when they stop sounding better! The lows have really fleshed out and upper mids and highs become ethereal with a breathtaking soundstage. I’m using bone standard 12 gage stranded OFC speaker wire. I recently ordered Morrow SP2 speaker wire to try with DI’s. Anyone have any experience with Morrow speaker cable? I ordered the DI’s with full speaker grills to protect the paper drivers from pets, curious grandchildren and vacuuming! Well, I didn’t like the rather veiled sound with the grills on, so I cut them in half to protect the vulnerable lower woofers just off the floor. Yeah, these puppies have presence, in more ways than one...😎

David suggested I remove the link to a Flickr pix. I did, so if you are interested in seeing my very modest system and 1/2 grills o the DI, PM me and I will send you a .jpeg.

Cheers, DI fans!

Did you maintain the bevel on the upper slat or just cut it off at the half piece slat?

Yes, I kept the top bevel for a factory look. What I did was remove the uppermost rail (it is very lightly glued and stapled), cut the verticals to about 1” above the middle grill mounting  holes. Then sanded the the side verticals to match the top bevel. I used five minute epoxy while holding in place. You could also sparingly use Gorilla glue. Touch up the sanded side bevel profiles with black paint so the the wood color doesn’t show through the black grill cloth. I like the look of mine and can still enjoy the top end sparkle and dispersion and don’t have to worry about my darned dogs marking territory. 

 craigI59
There are likely lots of ways to skin a DI grill. I too, prefer the appearance and sound of the half grill in place in addition to the practical reasons! Time delay, if there is one, would be purely academic at best. Low frequencies travel so much differently anyway and the sound difference of grill cloth and thin frame over and around the woofers would, at best be negligible. How many serious music listeners are using a 2.1 system with a sub without much concern of time delay? I have no doubt Eric voiced the DI’s without grills. If there IS a slight time delay or defraction of some kind, the benefit of the half grill by far outweighs a small deleterious sonic effect. 😎