i think they sound good - moderate level of detail but they sound a hair bright. I have not heard the Tekton's. In this price range, I would look seriously at the Wharfedale Diamond line. They are outstanding for the money and are a touch warm where the Infinity's are a hair bright.

At your price point I think your going to have to decide what features are most important, Imaging, bass, overall loudness, you use your favorite type of mosic to help you choose, Rock=loudness+bass, jazz, Quality over loudness, you get it. And component matching can save you $$$$ so try before you buy IN YOUR SYSTEM so you don't end up starting all over again.

gibson77 wrote:

Hi all,
Building my first system. My room is 12x12. I play a wide variety of music. Will be playing from cpu and turntable. So far I have the following components:

Turntable: Orbit
Receiver: Outlaw RR2150

Now I am looking to get some speakers. The two that I am looking hard at are:

Infinity Primus P360. I can get these for around 100-200 a pair.
Tekton Mini Lore: $650

I know that is quite a difference. I am wondering if anyone has any experience with any of these.

The Wharfedale Diamond 10.2 speakers are very good speakers at $449 per pair; that would be my recommendation.

Another very good speaker is the Monitor Audio Bronze BX2 speakers, which Audio Advisor has marked down now to $358 per pair (were $489).

I think most people would find the P360 speakers hard to listen to for very long; they are a bit on the abrasive side for my ears. Most current Infinity speakers are not very good IMO.

Having a very powerful and versatile quality receiver was a good move on your part. Just about any speaker on the planet would be fine with that amp and you get a good tuner and phono stage, along with the modern connectivity for devices and even a sub and pre-out option. Those features might come in handy at some point in the future if you move into a larger room or wish to change components or speakers.

I've not heard either speaker you are considering, but read the Stereophile review of the Infinity and the Stereo Mojo review of the Tekton. With either speaker, you aren't going to need to use much of the amplifier's power in a room size such as yours.

The Tekton speakers are 95db and may present a bit of a problem in a small room with a powerful amp in that you will have a very sensitive volume control knob. Small adjustments to the volume knob will result in large increases in sound pressure.

I would encourage you to expand your speaker possibilities and at least consider standmount, but would especially suggest reading a little bit about speaker positioning for a given room size. In short, standmounts can be more versatile in small rooms and often times provide sufficient bass response while offering better driver integration and spatial possibilities. That's not to say that floor models can't work very well, but it sure does help if you have plenty of flexibility to place them in the room where they can be optimized to take advantage of that little bit of extra low frequency extension that can otherwise make it impossible to achieve good sound due to placement location and room interaction.