Dear Yyzstanabarbera,
I really enjoyed our conversation, in the time that has elasped I forgot that this post is from you.
I will recap a few points, we have heard the TAD ME1 at two different shows, and in each show we came away very impressed by the musicallity and high resolution and slightly sweet sound of the ME1 we are so intrigued that we are considering bringing them in.
If you are interested we would bring in a pair to compare with the Kef Ref 1.
Are they that much better, personally no, they just seem to offer a different take on the dual concentric design with a different profile.
As stated before, a point source works better than almost any other design for a small room, a first order sloped loudspeaker generally needs greater distance for the overlapping frequencies to gel into a coherent sound field, a point source guarantees that all sounds arrive in time and from the same place. A dual concentric is favored in many recording studios as monitors because the design focuses sound to the listener even in off access positions, many studios use Tannoy's for this reason.
The Micromega is dead silent, we have never heard the fans come on in our demos, if the fans are noisy that was a defective unit.
We know of no other high performance integrated with suce a fantastic feature set our amazing sound quality. The MARS room correction has been lauded as a very effective way of improving less than optimal rooms and is less intrusive than many other DSP based room correction systems.
If you have any further questions, please feel free to PM us.
You have a great post going on, one of the most important things in low level listening is lowering noise floor, which you are doing with acoustic tunning, the next is high resolution loudspeakers, KEF, TAD, Magico are all loudspeakers that will sound fanatastic at less than big volume levels, the third is room correction, which can alleviate nasty frequency response humps which obscure details.
Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ
I really enjoyed our conversation, in the time that has elasped I forgot that this post is from you.
I will recap a few points, we have heard the TAD ME1 at two different shows, and in each show we came away very impressed by the musicallity and high resolution and slightly sweet sound of the ME1 we are so intrigued that we are considering bringing them in.
If you are interested we would bring in a pair to compare with the Kef Ref 1.
Are they that much better, personally no, they just seem to offer a different take on the dual concentric design with a different profile.
As stated before, a point source works better than almost any other design for a small room, a first order sloped loudspeaker generally needs greater distance for the overlapping frequencies to gel into a coherent sound field, a point source guarantees that all sounds arrive in time and from the same place. A dual concentric is favored in many recording studios as monitors because the design focuses sound to the listener even in off access positions, many studios use Tannoy's for this reason.
The Micromega is dead silent, we have never heard the fans come on in our demos, if the fans are noisy that was a defective unit.
We know of no other high performance integrated with suce a fantastic feature set our amazing sound quality. The MARS room correction has been lauded as a very effective way of improving less than optimal rooms and is less intrusive than many other DSP based room correction systems.
If you have any further questions, please feel free to PM us.
You have a great post going on, one of the most important things in low level listening is lowering noise floor, which you are doing with acoustic tunning, the next is high resolution loudspeakers, KEF, TAD, Magico are all loudspeakers that will sound fanatastic at less than big volume levels, the third is room correction, which can alleviate nasty frequency response humps which obscure details.
Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ