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

Just got in house for review for hometheaterreview.com Tekton Design’s new, The Perfect SET, which is close to 100dB efficient and never dips below 8 ohms, which Eric built to be used with SET "flea watt" amplifiers. It is a front ported design using a 12 inch woofer and his patented array of small transducers that function as a midrange driver with a single tweeter in the middle. I set them up in a system with a great 2A3 SET amplifier and found them so superlative I did not stop listening for over five hours! Taking about "goosebump time" the music was so beautiful that
I lost track of time.

These speakers have all the virtues of the other Tekton speakers, speed, utter transparency/micro-details, great soundstaging, and that special "aliveness" that I experience when I listen to my Ulf’s. What really amazed me was what the Perfect SET was delivering on the bottom end frequencies, subterrainian/taut powerful bass, that was shaking the room, all coming from at most 2.5 to 3 watts.

If you love SET amplifiers this speaker is a match made in heaven, and remember this pair just arrived and is not totally burnt in yet.

teajay
saki70
853 posts
 
First off...two thumbs up for Mapman !


Second … If someone is truly building a speaker for SET low powered amps , why don't they design the speaker with a higher impedance than 8
ohms ? Why not 10 , 12 or 16 ohms ? 


Three...Teajay lists these speakers at 100 db. efficiency , Tekton's website lists them at 96 db. ? Several other reviewers have stated that 
they figure Tekton's to be several points lower than what is claimed by the manufacturer . As someone else has stated , a few points make a big difference in this situation .

Looking forward to reading Teajays comparison of the two that he has recently reported on here . A truly low powered amp friendly speaker for @ $2,000 sure would be nice !

Just saying... please no flames !
kosst_amojan
2,095 posts
 
@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. 
mofojo
517 posts
 
@ ketchup
That's exactly what I am doing is posting what I want as should everyone else. That doesn't change the facts they need to get a life.
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twoleftears
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@d2girls It's not just the dust you have to worry about when returning; any fingerprints will bring an even greater deduction from the refund.
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jayctoy
1,962 posts
 
Ketchup with respect to you, we should make this forum more informative, do the best we can to share our experience toward cables, gears, and share what they did to our system, this thread was already derailed , so much time spend talking about Eric and his service, and questioning Teajay motives, and credibility, Maybe I should just write one thread, Like this.. Please write all the bad experience you have on Tekton ... and please write your good experience on Tekton what do you guys think?
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