Highly efficient, beautiful sounding speaker from Tekton Design. Updated version, original cost $2000. Very good condition. Excellent with low wattage amplifiers (such as my 8 watt 300B SET amp), but also shine with higher power amps. Prefer local pickup in Seattle or Port Townsend WA, but will ship (I will construct bullet secure boxes for shipping). If shipped: $700 plus shipping and paypal. $600 for local pickup. Will deliver within an hour of Seattle for $50 extra.
From manufacturer's website:
http://tektondesign.wordpress.com/2010/07/13/updated-katz-meow/The KatZ Meow is the culmination of decades of loudspeaker product development and engineering, wrapped in a single package. It is an exercise in incorporating only the most desirable traits of classic full-range design. This redesign incorporates new transducers and a new forward-thinking, proprietary cabinet technology -- a technology that improves efficiency and fidelity across the entire bass spectrum. The bass extension is lowered an average of half of a full octave and produces an additional 5dB output at the cut-off knee.
Now, if you're not into the science of it all, please understand that deep and proper bass weighting is the Achilles' heel of the full-range loudspeaker (more to come on this at a later date). This is why so many full range designs simply incorporate giant horns. Unfortunately, horns of all sizes and shapes hardly qualify as top-class fidelity reproducers. They are hardly linear. They degrade the stereo image and the spatial depth of the presentation, all of which are necessities if world-class hi-fi is your goal. Our proprietary design produces the most accurate and believable bass you've ever heard. And it's not just the deep bass; it's the full bandwidth of bass frequencies and the mid-bass, too!
Preliminary specifications:
•8" Fostex Sigma transducer
•Audax Gold tweeter
•Time-aligned design
•Proprietary X-over network (pure, minimalistic design)
•Proprietary bass cabinet
•96db 1W@1M, 8 Ohm impedance, 40Hz-30kHz frequency response
•Dimensions: 33.5" tall x 10" wide x 11" deep
•Weight: 46 lbs
•$2K Pair
