It depends on how he powers the array of drivers. I think you can get a nice radiation pattern if you feed them separately with the right phase and amplitude
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Tekton M-Lore Speaker Review
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DanielT
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I note yoursI learned that speakers that test bad can actually sound good, and speakers that test good can actually sound bad.....according to some people.
so I understand your position, but I'm going to spin the whole thing anyway. 
(what I write below is probably not news to you)
Far-fetched and improbable:
Purely theoretically, if you have a listening room where you with speakers that have anechoic flat FR but in your listening room, because of:
Room modes are the collection of resonances that exist in a room when the room is excited by an acoustic source such as a loudspeaker. Most rooms have their fundamental resonances in the 20 Hz to 200 Hz region, each frequency being related to one or more of the room's dimensions or a divisor thereof. These resonances affect the low-frequency low-mid-frequency response of a sound system in the room and are one of the biggest obstacles to accurate sound reproduction.
Room modes - Wikipedia
..that gives you to some valley or peak of 10-15 dB compared to speakers that anechoic have an opposite valley or peak so then in your listening room that will take out what your room acoustically creates. Then these non-flat anechoic speakers can sound better for you.
BUT, that is theoretically. There are many ifs and buts in the whole thing. You should know how your listening room works, how it works with the speakers placed in X location. Plus you have to find speakers that have this crazy FR. Practically impossible I would say. Which shows that no manufacturer creates speakers with custom crazy, cranky FR just to fit in a specific room.
There are so many different rooms, so it is not possible to manufacture such speakers on a commercial basis.Not far fetched:
If you have problems, or let's say challenges because it can be fixed, with a wonky FR, you fix that with EQ. That in the mentioned bass area but also higher up in frequency if necessary. If the speakers are EQ friendly, that is, and that is something that many people, here at ASR anyway, now check before buying.
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Incidentally, speakers that measure poorly, let's say high distortion, can sound better than low distortion speakers if the latter has a worse FR. So it's a question of how to weigh what is measured against each other by importance.
Speakers with narrow or wide dispersion. There, speakers measure differently. It falls outside the scope because it can be considered both good and/or bad. It depends on taste and preference.
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Sorry, I am in no way condoning the man's attitude or personality, I am just stating that he is an engineer of some merit, His patent on tweeter array in order to lower the crossover
point of the mid range with lightweight unboxed driver I find very credible. I did a quick simulation with 5 quality Scan Speak drivers with good results. Of course I am just a an old DIY enthusiast not a qualified tech so I wont impose my simple and limited REW results on anyone.
Looking at Tekton website, that new speaker is called the “PMD Control Monitor”. It’s on sale at $4,300, with an “ultimate crossover” option priced at $1,800. The feet are a $0 option (spike or flat type).Probably meaningless, or more suited for the Call for Humor thread...
It looks like Tekton has a new speaker: https://tektondesign.com/product/sp...es-control-monitor-red-finish-5000-delivered/
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For $5,000, it can act as a studio monitor "workhorse", an audiophile "dream", and a party "champ" and, most importantly, the feet are already installed! There is an "ultimate crossover" option for $1,600 (!!! What the...??? For that amount of money, I'd like to know what it is about for sure!).
It also has the usual tweeter array... and I wonder if the 4x 10" transducers qualify as a "woofer array" ???
No trace of actual measurements... I wonder if Mr. Alexander bought himself a new Ferrari (see the T-shirt !!!) instead of investing in proper measurement equipment...
Oh and they finally erased the "Days without incident = 0" on the board behind the speaker: way to go Tekton !!!
Tekton also has a (new?) larger speaker, similar in concept: the Bonneville, on sale at $15,000.
Dead link.
Nobody in the business is going to buy this. Period.
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Every one of Tekton’s designs I look at offends my eyes and triggers a weird aural recoil. Just by looking at them.
Similar to Artcoustic in terms of multi-driver usage and no doubt similarly bad sounding. Unless you like it loud and in yer face.
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Oh lordy, now it's arrays of horns? Genius! Why didn't I think of that?! Can't wait to hear the off-axis on these.
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Bonneville: Original price was: $17000. Current price is: $15000 / pair.
"Comparable in size to the Klipsch Jubilee, the Bonneville measures 69″ tall x 48″ wide x 20″ deep... Four proprietary 15″ woofers provide deep, powerful bass, while seven 90 x 60 compression horns in our patented poly-cell array deliver clear and detailed midrange."
I did not see the weight of the Bonneville on the Tekton website. The Klipsch Jubilee weighs 408 pounds (186 kg).
Does this 'poly-cell array' use 6 lighter, faster compression/horn drivers to 'replace' one larger, slower, mid-range compression/horn driver? Isn't that the basis for the 'poly-cell array patent'? BTW, the Klipsche Jubilee is a 2-way with just one large, slow, compression driver, and two 12 inch woofers.
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All I can say is:
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Not to pile on, but the Bonneville's look a wee bit underported.
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I had a pair of Tekton electrons and I thought they had some of the worst off axis listening ability of any speaker I ever heard.
I sold them.
I sold them.
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Isn't that a single driver with a multi-segment horn rather than multiple drivers? Tekton would say that driver was 'slow'...
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Well then post the simulation results. That would be scientific. Not seeing or hearing a speaker in ad-hoc situation.
That is one big box!
I'll try to get it somewhat pretty.
PS: What would you use for x-over? Idea would be to cross early to the mid-horn-circle (??), but that would be rather hard on the drivers.
PPS: Just stupid. Boxsim project enclosed, change .txt to .BPJ
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Every speaker is quite different, they are simply none of them anywhere near as accurate as the electronics powering them. So even a crappy little speaker lets you hear something NEW, and thus "good." It can also be a thing where a speaker with a lot of drivers could have lower distortion at high SPL, and certainly sound better than something which is breaking up.
Ideally you want both smooth measurements of response and dispersion, together with low distortion.
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Yes (although sometimes two drivers would be used with the large multicell horns like those beautiful 1505s).
Tekton -- if they said that -- would be wrong.
I imagine that the Tekton guy's heard 288 drivers on 1505 horns.
They can be pretty darned satisfying to listen to.
We all take an oath to only use such drivers and ancillary hardware for peaceful purposes, but of course they can also be weaponized.
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