Epic 15
Original price was: $2500. $2200Current price is: $2200.
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Description
We listen to our clients’ suggestions and after 5 years of production with direct client input and feedback, we went to work on taking the Perfect SET 15 to an entirely upgraded sound and level of performance. The bass is big and bold, yet refined. Crutchfield has 355 loudspeakers to pick from, and they have nothing close to this – nothing! Audio Advisor faces the same challenge. This is an audiophile-grade 15″ woofer loudspeaker system that delivers exceptional audio fidelity with refined, well-balanced, powerful sound at a price anyone can afford. Our patented midrange technology is spot-on perfect, delivered through our patented tweeter array with a total moving mass of 1.8 grams. This patented array contributes to the overall frequency response starting at 190 Hz and the crossover frequency is 320Hz. Nothing on earth is built like this, and it sounds unlike anything else! Imagine an electrostatic panel speaker system with 90% lower mass that can hit high SPLs – that’s what we do.
- Made under U.S. Patent 9247339
- Proprietary controlled directivity – acoustically superior proprietary polygon-oriented radiator high frequency array. This array disperses a precisely focused acoustical power pattern of that of a horn or waveguide without the audible ringing influence of horn flare walls constraining the soundwave for acoustically superior mid-range high frequency performance ​
- 15″ woofer
- 95dB 2.83V@1m sensitivity
- 8 Ohm impedance
- Linear 26Hz-30kHz frequency response
- Minimum Recommended Amplifier Power: 30 Watts (will perform well with lower wattage amps as well)
- 300 Watts maximum power handling
- Dimensions: Height 41.5″ (105.41 cm) x Width 16″ (40.64 cm) x Depth 14″ (35.56 cm)
- Weight 87 lbs.
- Grilles (optional – add $100)
- Designed and hand-crafted in the U.S.A.
Denny Lach –
What does music reproduction in the home mean to you? What does being an audiophile mean to you? What aspects of music reproduction in the home send shivers down your spine or emotionally stimulate you? I could go on. Ask these questions of a dozen music lovers, and you may get a dozen different answers. Ask these same questions over, say 10 year intervals to the same people, and you may be surprised how their in-home appreciation of music reproduction evolves and changes through the years. My preferences certainly have. I’m an older guy.
My audiophile journey began when I was an impecunious college student back in the early 1970’s. It blossomed during a summer internship at a large engineering firm. Getting to know and being mentored by several veteran engineers AND being introduced to their home hi-fi systems was a revelation to me of what’s possible for music reproduction in the home. Vacuum tube electronics of pea-size wattage and large Electro-Voice and Altec speakers with BIG woofers. Oh, the dynamic swings, the in-room bass response and that spine tingling, live music effect! Maybe not exactly like being in Severance Hall listening to live Cleveland Orchestra concerts OR at my Aunt Mary’s favorite live Jazz supper-clubs which she loved dragging me to. But, early on I nurtured a good grounding of what live, unamplified, music really sounds like. That’s the sound I wanted to reproduce in my home… when finally I had some funds. It was/is a journey.
So, fast forward to June, 2024 and Eric Alexander’s YouTube video about “The Audiophile Bass Paradox.” I encourage you to watch it. Imagine the temerity of a speaker designer bemoaning the evolving, relative collapse of large, tuneful, textured bass response in home hi-fi speakers! And his introductory comments about how the new Tekton Epic-15 speakers address these shortcomings. His impassioned remarks struck a chord with me. BTW, what is life if we can’t be impassioned about something, anything?
A few email exchanges with Eric and crew, a few days later and the Epic-15’s were gracing my listening room. They’re magnificent. Large? Yes (size matters?!). Tuneful, textured and dynamic? Yes. Approaching that never attained, but always seeking, live music experience? Oh yes! You can hear and often feel the bowing and plucking of string instruments and their natural resonances. This is an important feature of live music that’s often lost with many contemporary speakers. Ditto with drum and tympany thwacks and hall ambience and canon shots. Brass instruments reveal natural, but not overly done bite. Female vocals are reproduced with haunting naturalness. The horizontal and vertical soundstages are large and deep with instruments identifiable in space. My Epic-15’s love tube and solid-state electronics, both modern and vintage. Well-recorded music, for example from Telarc, especially Telarc Jazz recordings, as well as Professor Keith Johnson’s Reference Recordings sound almost scarily real during late night listening sessions. You can play the Epic-15’s at low volumes and not miss anything. Oh yes, I was able to re-purpose the subwoofer to other duties.
At this time and place in my audio journey, the Tekton Epic-15’s are the perfect speakers for me. Happy listening and enjoy your journey… Denny