Thomas and Stereo stated in his review that the S300 and S400 shouldn't even be in the same series as they are so different, the S400 should be W400 for waveguide. I'm sure the op has researched but this would be something a bit different, a rather directional but not "shouty" sound. Also, the rest of the review had a great chart with responses from audiophile friends. Now the trick would be figuring out where he Tekton would fit into that.
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Here's the stereophile vertical response measurement of the Impact Monitor: https://www.stereophile.com/images/718TekIMfig5.jpg Tekton's are way more height sensitive than a normal monitor speaker due to the lobing effect of so many tweeters. You really can’t be more than 5 degrees above or below the tweeter array or you will be outside the sweet spot. Whereas the Buchardt S400 is going to be the complete opposite. With the waveguide it will be much less sensitive to speaker height and will radiate sound in a more uniform fashion on the vertical plane. Here’s the Revel M106’s vertical dispersion which has a similar style of waveguide to the Buchardt S400. You can see it’s much less sensitive to vertical placement. https://www.stereophile.com/images/914Revelfig5.jpg |
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