Golden ear triton 1 vs tekton double impact speakers

Personally I don’t care if there are 9 tweeters or 1.

As long as I like the sound. 

There's no reason to believe stuffing a single driver in a box is any kind of engineering, but people still love the things.

My point is, speaker design is more about implementation than components.  If you don't understand how Erik designs his speakers with his tweeter array, it is easy to dismiss them.  Essentially, it is his take on a dual concentric driver. 

I struggled to see the value in his design.  I have now heard the DI SE and can say they are impressive speakers for the money.  My expectations (bias?) were eliminated and I was left with simply good sound.

There’s no reason to believe stuffing a heap of tweeters in a box is good engineering. Given the paucity of such products and the general lack of success for those that do exist, it would seem the virtue is lacking.

Throwing parts in a box is never good engineering. However good engineers can make great systems with multiple drivers. If you actually followed engineering research, or had experienced good line arrays you might feel differently.

Speakers come and go due to more than engineering, as you should know. Cost is definitely one of many issues, as is form factor. I find these simultaneous attacks on the general idea of line arrays from multiple accounts pretty curious, and universally ill informed.

Line arrays are heavily researched, by professionals and many papers have been presented at the Audio Engineering Society. Whether any particular line array is any good, or whether you like them or not is a different issue.

But to call a line array poorly engineered because it is a line array, well then, show me your engineering credentials, because I call bs on you.

While I have not heard every GE speaker, the one pair I heard was among the very very worst speakers I had ever heard. I have no experience with Tektons at all.

Best,

E

@mofojo 

Uh, no... Nobody needs to debate the quality of Focal because they're a company that is widely respected as one of the finest speaker makers on the planet. And they run their international business like real professional. Nobody buying Focal needs to order grills separately, get them upgraded, or wonder what parts they're built from. Nobody who own a pair of Focal needs to reassure themselves they own excellent speakers. Practically everybody acknowledges it. The audio press certainly does. Focal is the kind of company builders with less technical and research prowess and resources turn to when they need the drivers to actualize their design. Tekton will never be the kind of success Focal is. By the time Focal was as old as Tekton they'd achieved vastly more success and respect. Measuring the success of a speaker company based on what a bunch of folks say on a second hand marketplace forum is absurd. 

@erik_squires 
I've read all Meyer Sound's white papers on their line arrays and heard many line arrays from JBL, Nexo, and Meyer Sound. I'm familiar with the principles by which they operate. Virtually all the makers of HiFi line arrays use some sort of point-source type of dynamic driver, typical of an inch in size. Since these tweeters have frames of some sort, you're doing real good to mount them 1.5" on center. That distance dictates how well they're going to coherently couple and behave according to line arrays theory. At 1.5" centers they fall apart at 9kHz. Many don't even achieve spacing that close. PA rigs dodge than bullet by using complicated horns that attempt to emulate a ribbon. If the centers are 2" on center, the drivers decouple at just 6500Hz. That is NOT a line arrays. That's just a bunch of discombobulated drivers acting as a line of Independent, incoherent point sources. Golden Ear AMT type drivers suffer the measurable artifacts of their frame aperatures which cause each opening to behave as an individual source at their top ends. There's no way a pillar of any size domes can behave as a real line array throughout their passband.