Tekton Speakers,Who owns them and what did you replace and why.

hifiman5,   I watched  Pauls vid and noticed he did not mention poly material for drivers although as he mentioned speakers are not his thing .   - I had read somewhere in the last year or so about the proliferation of polypropylene material drivers and how that material is just not the optimal way to go  for reproducing sound.   It is though  exceptionally cost effective for manufacturers  to use poly drivers  as  they are very easy to manufacture  so much so that its practically like using a waffle iron to make the driver material.        

 Around this time I started reading more and more about Harbeth of which I never paid attention to in the last 15 yrs that I have been  immersed   in my music listening.   Being I buy virtually all my equipment  (preowned)  without auditioning  (it kept  me busy although of late I have settled down staying with my current components)   I decided to spring for Harbeth  7-es3 monitors  (used) which have taken me to a place of  spending the most I have spent on speakers..   Harbeth  has a lot of good info on driver material  and their product  on the site .     and of course plenty of  reviews online.    Im glad I did.    The most musical I have heard thus far.  

  I did have an entry level pair of Tekton's quite awhile back and used  for a very short time and dont remember anything special about them.   Those Tektons of course being very entry level likely do not compare with what is being discussed in this thread.    
Back to poly:     Im guessing  based on my last pair of Decwares that retailed for around 2k and used poly drivers that could be bought for $36 ea online.    I know because I was able to find out in order to replace a few that had been damaged in shipment.   Another story.  
So,  I have to wonder how many "hi end " manufacturers are using poly drivers to keep parts cost down when spending a bit more would bring forth better sound.   Of course the most egregious example would be speakers costing 5k and up and using poly drivers.     To be clear though--its not like they are going to sound awful..  I listened to my MG944's for years and I found no obvious complaint  .    Just coming from a place of getting more for the money ..       

skiroe,  The poly drivers you speak of were all the rage for a short period of time.  I remember auditioning speakers with such drivers and they seemed to have a "plasticy" sound to them.  Paul Mc was making the point that in his experience, regardless of driver material, as long as the speaker designer understood the limitations of the drivers and utilized them within their optimum frequency level that all would be good.

This seemed to me to be appropo to the Tektons as they appear to use very conventional paper cones for the midrange and bass.  Paul's opinion would seem to support  the claim of Tekton devotees as to the superb sound quality of their speakers.

I have personally gone the other way, buying into the efficacy of very sophisticated tight tolerance drivers uniting with  an excellently  executed crossover to deliver outstanding sound.

Which approach is "right"?  Maybe neither or both.  I would love to have the opportunity to hear the Double Impacts of similar Tekton model to hear where they truly fall, at least to my ears, in the pantheon of audiophile speakers.

When it comes to Poly drivers,I haven't heard any speakers that use them since I owned a pair of Kappa 9's many yrs ago.Several speakers of that time period used Poly woofers and maybe other drivers like mids.I can recall a weird sound from them that just wasn't natural and I changed both of the 10 inch woofers to paper cone woofers,It's been so long ago that I don't remember what I used.

There is some great technology in very thin but rigid thinned epoxy nano spheres that are a hand me down from the aerospace industry and make great paper cone coatings,quite similar to what Zu audio speakers use.

Kenny.

I heard that Eric will be at RMAF this year, does anyone know what models of the Tekton speakers he will have on hand. Also what size rooms are you using with the DI's. I am considering attending RMAF just so I can listen to these speakers. I live in Kansas so I know there is no other opportunity for me to listen other than make a trip to Denver.

My listening room is 20x25x9 and has a open kitchen on one side and the other side is open to the front door entryway and front bedroom.

I have no Idea what models would be at RMAF but I'm sure they would want to showcase their top models.You might call them and see,I'm sure other folks would like to know as well.

Kenny.