Best speaker in the US $ 30-45.000,00 range

Again John, i said fullrange monitors not "Monitors" and relative to studio monitors the term is applied differently in the commercial field, such as nearfield and or farfield monitors (genelec is of recent).

There are various terms used today and most are applied loosely today, via marketing. A manufacturer can call his speakers anything he wants, but based on the past, i reserve the right to accept or not to.

The TAD1 are mini monitors or bookshelf speakers, take your pick ...

Regards,

Geez Weseixas...You must hate to be wrong! Does your wife accuse of being a "control freak!"

Harbeth 40's a bookshelf speaker...LOL!

John .

What is TAD's designation for the TAD1 , monitor? stand speaker? it's 2 small to be a monitor in the realm of a SA12 or B&W 801's , you do know these were classified as monitors and they were much bigger than the tad1.

The key to the designation is the tweeter height , i said so many moons back , over and over , the TAD1 has a tweeter height that is less than 24 inchs , that makes it a mini monitor , no matter how many pounds they put into it.

Now if you want to say they are monitors, OK , but they are smaller than speakers with such a designation and bigger than the usual mini .. now what ?

Here is a speaker with the similar tweeter height to the TADS 1

http://www.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?spkrfull&1298727958

IMO the TAD1's are mini monitors, but I'm willing to update and call them the biggest mini monitors heeevar made.

:):):)

regards,

Jonnyb53:

You too seem to be impressed with the TAD speakers. Have you had a chance to hear the big Reference One's? Not sure where you live, but Audio Video Logic, out of Des Moines, will be holding a TAD, Krell and Nordost seminar on the evening of Thursday, January 27. Andrew Jones, of TAD, will be on hand and both the "mini monitors" (LOL) and the big Reference Ones will be demo’d on the $100,000+ house system. seminar

Disclaimer: I can’t afford either pair of TAD speakers…in fact, I’m going so I can meet the Krell rep and demo their new S-275 amp. The TADs are mighty impressive though. The big JBL Everest speakers will also be on display…hope to see some of you guys there (not sure if anyone is located in the Midwest…??).

Cheers!

_Ben

No 2chnlben... but i do see your response as an attempt to control my opinion, making you the control freak.