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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
dcevans
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Mapman, 
Wow— I have been looking at them, but was actually thinking of them for my main system — which doesn’t make a lot of sense, because they would be replacing another 2 way standmount with a beryllium tweeter (Focal Electra 1007 Be). Read some great comments from an audio show. Are they rear ported?  Do you think they would sound okay within a foot of the front wall?  Thank you for the suggestion!!!
dcevans
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I had previously read a stellar review of the Carrera 7 Be by John Richardson with Part-Time Audiophile 
clio09
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Fritz and I have done a number of shows together pairing his speakers (Carbon 7 and Carrera) with a 12 watt 300B SET amp. The whole thing happened by accident as the first show we did together the original amp we were going to use had an issue, so while it was being looked over we put the 300B on the speaker, We were pretty amazed and try as hard as we could we never were able to clip the amp. So we did a few more shows with that pairing. As for distance, we have put them about 2 feet or so (measured to the front baffle) from the front wall and there were no issues. These are very impedance friendly and flexible speakers.
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jayctoy
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Reviews gives you an idea how the gears, cables, speakers sound,I always like to read Herb Reichert review, I trust Him , and I think we have the same taste, Robert Harley is one of my favorite reviewer as well...Teajay I could tell, He is very passionate on this hobby, He lives maybe 2 hrs from Toska audio in Illinois , and I saw Him on the way out, I was told that’s Teajay, We both attended this seminar about vynil tt set up.blew me away , 2 hrs drive for the seminar? And He is there... So far his review on Double Impact got me to buy the impact monitor , I am thinking now to audition the SET instead of the encore...I can smell something special on this speaker...
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jayctoy
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Teajay I have concierto amp by Art Audio, I think this would match SET without any problem ......What do you think?
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