Golden ear triton 1 vs tekton double impact speakers

@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. 

You are a funny guy, Kosst.

While I appreciate a good AMT, I've never heard GE speakers use one. Also, having measured them several times, I have no idea what this artifact is you speak of, do you have a paper to point me to? 
Also, while the issue of comb filtering has been thrown out, there's a great deal of debate about measurement techniques in terms of actual listening location. If comb filtering occurs, it is incredibly easy to hear it. Move your head. Come filtering would cause rapid changes in frequency response. No one who has heard a tekton has complained about it. Therefore, the point seems like poor matching of theory to perception and measurement. Not good engineering at all.

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@erik_squires 
You've never heard a Golden Ear speaker with an air-motion transformer? They all use air-motion transformers. GE builds their own and the front of the unit is a very beefy metal aperatures grill. In measuring the Triton Reference, John Atkins measured high frequency artifacts that seem to be produced by the size and spacing of the aperatures in the AMT frame. 

You’ve never heard a Golden Ear speaker with an air-motion transformer? They all use air-motion transformers.

That’s not what I meant to say. I meant that I’ve never heard GE use a good one. I’ve heard the Triton one and it was awful. The FR response explains what I heard. The severe and deliberate coloration in the top octave sounds like an ear drill to me. This is possibly a good match for those with matching hearing loss in that octave however. To me it was not only bright, but severely compressed.

https://www.stereophile.com/content/goldenear-technology-triton-one-loudspeaker-measurements

As for those anomalies caused by the grill, no, my Mundorf AMT’s do no such thing.

Golden Ear, like  others, sometimes favors having peaks and valleys to make them appear to stand out in detail in some areas, so no wonder they would pick an AMT with such issues.