l always liked the looks of the large Tekton floorstanders but heard that the designer has some, er, idiosyncratic, views on speaker design, so never pulled the trigger on them. Thanks for the review, much appreciated.
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Tekton M-Lore Speaker Review
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Next to the meh performance, this thing also looks like a 20-year-old DIY project. The woofer isn't recessed, showing the mounting foam, and as usual the crossover point is way too high, resulting in quite a big directivity mismatch.
This looks like a mediocre DIY effort at the best, which was my initial impression about the brand. Now
I wish some K+T designs were tested here. It all seems to be nice from their own measurements. Since it’s DIY, the catch is always with our builds perfection.Thanks for the test Amir.
I say as others noted, considering the construction and the drivers used, not terrible. It breathes classic design, i.e. an 8 inch bass with paper as material in the cone plus a tweeter.
Considering you said this Amir :
"We also have directivity error due to high crossover point and mismatch of sizes of tweeter/woofer without a waveguide for the former." ....so I put in an example of a two-way speaker with an 8 inch paper cone bass driver with wavegudidade tweeters.FR looks better for that Momo speaker:
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https://www.lautsprechershop.de/hifi/momo.htm
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Momo has a low crossover point, 1.8 KHz, which is also different from Tekton M-Lore, so also for that reason it is not really possible to compare them both, I must add.
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Many of the designs of Thomas Schmidt who fully took over the K+T kit making since Holger Barske left give the impression of quite good well and real life optimised engineering.
fpitas
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While the speaker is a decade old says to me that somebody is buying them. Not sure what the attraction is. The thing with a million tweeters was kind of cool, but the rest of the line is kind of "big box store" looking.
fpitas
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That may be. Although, the treble is already a little droopy on-axis.
Maybe you should position them on their sides!
Then there's these:
www.stereophile.com
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yikes!
Tekton Design Enzo XL loudspeaker Measurements | Stereophile.com
Sidebar 3: Measurements I used DRA Labs' MLSSA system and a calibrated DPA 4006 microphone to measure the Tekton Enzo XL's frequency response in the farfield; and an Earthworks QTC-40, with its small, ¼"-diameter capsule, for the nearfield responses.
Tekton Design Impact Monitor loudspeaker Measurements | Stereophile.com
Sidebar 3: Measurements I used DRA Labs' MLSSA system and a calibrated DPA 4006 microphone to measure the Tekton Design Impact Monitor's frequency response in the farfield, and an Earthworks QTC-40 for the nearfield responses. My estimate of the Impact's sensitivity was 87.5dB(B)/2.83V/m...
yikes!
fpitas
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"The Beast With a Million Tweeters!"Then there's these:
Tekton Design Enzo XL loudspeaker Measurements | Stereophile.com
Sidebar 3: Measurements I used DRA Labs' MLSSA system and a calibrated DPA 4006 microphone to measure the Tekton Enzo XL's frequency response in the farfield; and an Earthworks QTC-40, with its small, ¼"-diameter capsule, for the nearfield responses.
Tekton Design Impact Monitor loudspeaker Measurements | Stereophile.com
Sidebar 3: Measurements I used DRA Labs' MLSSA system and a calibrated DPA 4006 microphone to measure the Tekton Design Impact Monitor's frequency response in the farfield, and an Earthworks QTC-40 for the nearfield responses. My estimate of the Impact's sensitivity was 87.5dB(B)/2.83V/m...
yikes!
fpitas
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More tweeters would fix that.
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what on god's holey green earf is going on here???
does Tekton own a majority stake in Dayton tweeters???
these speaker designs make my neck itch
More like SB Acoustics...
It's a Vifa tweeter, possibly this one:
Dome tweeter Peerless BC25TG15-04, 4 ohm, 1-inch voice coil
The BC family of tweeters features a damped fabric dome for smooth frequency response performance and ferrofluid in the gap of the ferrite magnet motor,providing enhanced cooling of the voice coil. BC tweeters come with a compact faceplate with recessed mounting holes,complete with sealing...
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Vifa as a band has been in half hibernation since they got acquired by Tymphany in 2005. Which illustrates what relatively ancient drivers are used in this design. Not that the Vifa tweeter is bad, it's just a really old design (I found references from 2003). The Eminence is even older.
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I was referring to their multi-tweeter models (not the one in this test, which is indeed Tymphany/Peerless BC25 series https://hificompass.com/ru/speakers/measurements/peerless/peerless-bc25tg15-04 )It's a Vifa tweeter, possibly this one:
Dome tweeter Peerless BC25TG15-04, 4 ohm, 1-inch voice coil
The BC family of tweeters features a damped fabric dome for smooth frequency response performance and ferrofluid in the gap of the ferrite magnet motor,providing enhanced cooling of the voice coil. BC tweeters come with a compact faceplate with recessed mounting holes,complete with sealing...
Vifa as a band has been in half hibernation since they got acquired by Tymphany in 2005. Which illustrates what relatively ancient drivers are used in this design. Not that the Vifa tweeter is bad, it's just a really old design (I found references from 2003).
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Take on more Louise speak her review.
More or less.
More or less.
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I think this is the first Tekton review on ASR? I already kinda guessed that it wouldn't be all that great. I noticed a lot of these brands with a lot of hype and very little objective data are flop when put under the microscope.
Either I miswrote, or you misread.But Tympany is not owned by SB Acoustics
It's about what the DUT (the Tekton) uses, not who manufactures the tweeters (two different manufacturers).
I guess the wink face implied a tongue-in-cheek, sorry if so.
Never mind, I misread
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