Tidal Speakers owners

Mike,

How does it compare with Contriva D SE?

Thanks

I was in the audition of Piano Cera together with Argyro. The sound was truly exceptional and this system even without all its component being in the top league could easily compete for the Best Sound of the Munich High End show if it had been demonstrated in this year's show.

The preamplifier was the Sovereign Director, the power amplifier was the Electrocompaniet AW-250 and the digital source was the Resolution Opus and/or Orpheus Dac One. Cables were the Organic by Argento...

Bear in mind that the speakers had played only 40-50 hours so they were not properly broken yet...

Kclone as a power amp we used an Electrocompaniet 2 x 250, do not remember the model.

As a preamp, an Aaton Cineast and a Sovereign Director. The difference between the two was huuugeeeeee! The Tidal managed to display all attributes that made the Director a better preamp. It was absolutely SHOCKING how easily you could spot the differences. I have never heard differences between two preamps so easily.

The source was a Resolution Opus 21 and then my Orpheus DAC1!

Cables from epoch and then the famous Organic from Argento.

Kw13 the great thing about Tidal is that all their models differ only the size of the rooms that can fill. If you had ask me about the normal Contriva I would say that the only difference is bass output. But with the Contriva diacera SE I would add the naturalness of the diamond tweeter!

Just pick the speaker that fits your room and then add the Diacera option if you can go for it!

Happy Listening everyone!

Mike

hmm. Mine did not have the amazing wow factor after only 40-50 hours. Sounded kind of mediocre to tell you the truth. At the time I was using an Audio Research REF 5 pre and a Sim Audio W-7. I was very disappointed with the sound. The thing is, Jorn said I didn't need to pay crazy attention to the chain to make the Classic sound good. I as mentioned before, paying attention to the chain and changing everything is exactly what I had to do to tap into their potential. Maybe the Cera is just that much better than the Classic. I wonder if I should have ignored his advice gone with the Cera in the first place?