Support status pendragon forms industrial will be supported with standard support through august 31, 2016. The pendragon and standard lore models are 98dbwatt efficient so even low powered amps will play them at very loud levels. After this time, all support requests will require the purchase of a support ticket. Support status pendragon forms universal will be supported with standard support through august 31, 2016. This speaker looks like a prime candidate for a diy clone. Browsing over various speaker offerings, diy and commercial, i stumbled upon the tekton pendragons. Digging in to the tekton pendragon parttime audiophile. Since i dont have a vinyl collection the phono inputs were not tested. We are excited to announce the new seas based pendragon. Tekton pendragon monitors, klipsch sub12, sherbourn 51500, emotiva 1, oppo bdp93, fire tv basement.
Despite the fact that nick barrett formed pendragon all the way back in 1978 long before the neoprog scene took off in the 80s, the band has sort of played second best behind the more successful bands like marillion, iq and arena but nevertheless this band was not only one of the pioneers alongside others like pallas, solstice and twelfth night but amazingly has only. Anybody out there heard these i have dedicated audio room 14. On the bench like all tube power amplifiers, the m125 needs to have its output. The pendragon is a physically imposing loudspeaker, measuring 54 inches tall by 12 inches wide and 16 inches deep, weight is in the vicinity of 80plus pounds in satin black. Tektons new double impact speaker features a patented design that uses 11 drivers in a fourway configuration. Several, actually and as expected looking at the size of them they can and do play extremely loud extremely effortlessly with any genre of music. It concludes the battle between the travelers and saint dane. Visit the pendragons on facebook or instagram welcome to the pendragons dragon boat racing team. The base models will be sold through tekton direct and the upgraded versions through dealers.
Knowing the standard pendragon can be a bit on the large size for some rooms it was intuitive to insure everyone have the option of owning a pendragon. Please be aware that shipping and response times may be slower than usual. But now a concert to surpass score, concerto maximo by pendragon. Tekton speakers unconventional designs originally posted by sonicboom. These seas pendragon loudspeakers, and the tekton design crew that makes them, are downonyourbelly under the radar, but not for long. Join our exclusive audioholics ebook membership program. Tekton speakers unconventional designs ascend acoustics. Tekton pendragon vs goldenear triton 2 audioholics home. Alternate or customized versions are available on request, including the 8inch seas pendragons, and more recently the 14inch. I found a 300 watt bash plate amp with a fourth order crossover that can be set as low as 40hz so thats what fills in the last two octaves for the hornets. Speakers i have owned a pair of tekton design lores for over a month now. Crossover chrome os discussion about crossover chrome os and android. Having such a deepsounding underpinning makes almost all music sound significantly more real.
With crossover games, you can run many popular windows games on your intel os x mac or linux pc. On the other side of the spectrum is tekton, but they are carving out a reputation with. Tekton pendragon towers, tekton pendragon monitors lcr tekton pendragon monitors lr surrounds, emotiva erm6. Having now garnered a literal cult following, the mighty tekton pendragon rules and imitates no one.
Audio archon is an authorized dealer for tekton designs in the chicago area. Dec 28, 2012 the tekton has never been measured by 3rd parties. Anyone who wants to feel the music, which is exactly what makes the tekton mlore towers so much better than any. We are a mixedcompetitive team with members of all ages and all levels of experience. Kowtow is a music studio album recording by pendragon neoprogprogressive rock released in 1988 on cd, lp vinyl andor cassette. But the enzo xls, driven by a roksan k2 b2 integrated amplifier, presented thousand island park in such a relaxed and edifying fashion that i wondered why i hadnt gotten this music before.
Fleetwood mac, linda ronstadt, diana krall, dave matthews band. Tekton design pendragon center that matches pendragon left and right. We are proud to offer a venue for those who wish to hone their dragon boat skills, and for those who wish to pursue a challenging. As it turns out, i have owned a pair of tekton speakers for a number of years. Im thinking that will change as his business continues to grow then it. Ordered some tekton designs minilores new emotiva forums v. The only nit pick is that it is lackinglimited in covering say below 35 hz or so. Some of them with the open baffle hybrid design with no crossover. The pendragon is one on my list and is at its price point comparable with the sierra 1 towers. I tried a hsu sub with a 12 driver and a similar plate amp that allowed crossing as low at 30hz but the trade offs didnt make the cost of the hsu worth it imo. Hear for yourself how an amazing system is now even better. Birds of fire is a difficult record for any hifi to decode. Each pendragon uses a pair of 10inch papercone woofers and a trio of proprietary tweeters. Ive had these speakers for 8 years now i guess give or take a year.
After chatting with eric alexander, tektons designer, i was offered the choice of ordering with an 8ohm version of the drivers with an entirely different crossover, that is, the greyish ones that ship with the very popular lore model. Crossover frequency the sub lowpass can be set anywhere from 40 to 150hz all at a slope of approximately 24dboctave. I was a hippy for a few years back in the early seventies, went straight and turned away from yes and king crimson to classical music i did a unit of baroque music at university and jazz. Tekton pendragon monitors, klipsch sub12, sherbourn 51500, emotiva 1, oppo bdp93, fire tv. Five years ago i was revisiting my youth, as you tend to do when you get older, to. The pendragon books have more than three million copies in print, and this ebook collection of the final five volumes includes the rivers of zadaa, the quillan games.
Four out of five times ive played this album, the compositions have seemed annoying and pretentious. Tekton does make larger models for higher output in large rooms including their standard lore and pendragon models that boast widerange, excellent dynamic capability, and high output. I used dra labs mlssa system and a calibrated dpa 4006 microphone to measure the tekton enzo xls frequency response in the farfield. This is in full size cabinet with the drivers centered and the tweeter array oriented vertically. Although hr felt the enzo xl had a lowq bass alignment, the apparent peak in the midbass, which is primarily due to the nearfield measurement technique, does suggest that the q is a little higher than he conjectured.
Currently have marantz reference cdintergrated paired to magnepan 1. After chatting with eric alexander, tekton s designer, i was offered the choice of ordering with an 8ohm version of the drivers with an entirely different crossover, that is, the greyish ones that ship with the very popular lore model. Crossover comes with an easy to use, single click interface, which. The complex sum of the woofer and port responses, which takes into account acoustic phase, is shown as the black trace below 300hz in fig. Tekton design pendragon floor speakers fullrange audiogon. Ordered some tekton designs minilores the emotiva lounge. Read only forum from codeweavers staff to post common solutions to known issues.
Since the manufacturer doesnt give any information about crossover. I think part of the problem is that this brand kind of spread like wildfire. The biggest piece of junk to ever reside in my system was the tekton pendragon speakers. Tekton design pendragon center full size fullrange.
Pendragon are one of the neoprogressive bands along with iq, marillion, pallas, solstice and twelfth night who started in the late 1970s in mediumsized british towns and cities. Our main goal is to always strive to progress in our level of competitiveness. Pendragon have an unique sound very english i think this is also true of iq twelfth night and marillion but more so with pendragon. Catch up with the cutest couples in the pendragon series as they confess their love for each other. Everquest, originally launched in 1999, was the pioneer of the mmorpg genre by attracting mass appeal to the game format and setting the standard of the subscription model for persistent worlds. While these pendragons are somewhat of an anomaly in my room, my experience with tekton design and its founder, eric alexander, is not. Aug 07, 2012 we are excited to announce the new seas based pendragon. The enxzo xls specified sensitivity is an extraordinary 96. They brought kowtow out in 1988 it was their second album and not really a fans favourite i liked it thought it was a classic still do i have both the original and the new version fly high fall far and the jewel had come before but kowtow and. Perhaps tekton design seas pendragon undertheradar. Machale the soldiers of halla is the tenth and final book in the pendragon adventure series by d. Parents need to know that the 10volume pendragon series tells the story of bobby pendragon, a spacetime traveler who learns to use his special gifts to protect the inhabitants of halla the fantastical world where he lives from the diabolical villain saint dane.
Cinema subwoofer i recently had the opportunity to work on a home theater system with a pair of tekton 18. An archive of our own, a project of the organization for transformative works. Grill will ship in a separate box, and speaker will ship in original box. Like harry potter, bobby age 14 in book 1, the merchant of death grows up as the series progresses. Sep 30, 2012 on the other side of the spectrum is tekton, but they appear to be carving out a reputation and building an online following, especially thanks to the pendragon. The pendragon is a physically imposing loudspeaker, measuring 54. The pendragon is a physically imposing loudspeaker, measuring 54 inches tall by 12 inches wide and 16 inches deep, weight is. Tekton pendragon floorstanding loudspeakers powersound audio s3601 dual18inch subwoofer driven from the preamp outputs of the mcintosh ma8900 and used only with the thiel 1. We can only guess that they probably measure no flatter than the dt, but possibly worse. They brought kowtow out in 1988 it was their second album and not really a fans favourite i liked it thought it was a classic still do i have both the original and the new version fly high fall far and the jewel had come before but kowtow and were great releases. The s3601 surprised me in ways that my previous subwoofers had not.
I could hear the crossover between the bass, mids and highs. Apr 12, 2018 with both my tekton pendragon speakers and my thiel 1. After all, the fairly complicated crossover is 20 years old. It seemed to have unlimited deep bass extension in my room, and that was before i boosted the bass by 4db at 15hz with my parametric equalizer. We currently have a high volume of orders, and are doing everything we can to build and ship our products in a timely manner. Machales 10volume pendragon series, middleschooler bobby pendragon discovers he is a traveler, meaning he has special powers that allow him to travel from one planet, or \territory,\ to another within halla all the territories combined.
Tekton lore floorstanders super best audio friends. We are working with eric alexander from tekton to have upgraded versions of their wonderful speakers here to audition. The pendragon has now been updated and improved, incorporating key technology from our industrychanging us patent 9247339. On the other side of the spectrum is tekton, but they appear to be carving out a reputation and building an online following, especially thanks to the pendragon. The speakers to which i refer are tekton designs seas pendragons, which were designed and constructed here in the usa in orem, utah. Tekton s new double impact speaker features a patented design that uses 11 drivers in a fourway configuration.
In pendragon s case, it was 1978 and stroud in gloucestershire. Note that at the 150hz end of the range, the highpass filter is effectively bypassed. On the bench like all tube power amplifiers, the m125 needs to have its output tube bias set initially, and again at least semiannually. The speakers are sold internetdirect with a transferrable 5year warranty.
Pendragon forms universal will be supported with standard support through august 31, 2016. Bobby pendragon has visited the alternate shelve the never war. Michael zisserson these things should come with a warning label. Diy tekton pendragon clone techtalk speaker building. Tekton speakers unconventional designs originally posted by dark ranger if i may make an observation about the delays and shipping times. With both my tekton pendragon speakers and my thiel 1.
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