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Tidal speakers... particulary Tidal Sunray

Hello all,

I've been reading about Tidal speakers and was curious if anyone ever heard the Tidal Sunray or perhaps any other of their speakers.

The Sunray has 2x7" ceramic mid ranges, a 1.2" diamond tweeter and 4x9" woofers per speaker.

Based on the reading/research I've done it appears that Tidal manages to use the advantages of ceramic/diamond drivers, being detailed, transparent and fast, but managed to control their drawbacks namely potentially dry, clinical and thin sounding.

I currently use the Marten Coltrane but the Tidal appears very interesting as upgrade.

Appeciate if anyone is able to give their views on this speaker based on a listening session and if you agree with the above sound.

Also your view of this speaker in comparison with eg. the Avalon Isis, Rockport Altair, Peak Consult Dragon and Magico M5 is appreciated.

Many many thanks
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karelfd
476 posts
 
Husk01 I'm afraid "some other speakers" in the last sentence of my comment must include Q5. Agree with Metralla, the TAD presentation was top tier. Personally, I also liked Kharma, Gryphon (where I had the advantage of being alone) and AudioNec very much but one of my absolute favourites was the new Brodmann JB 205 with Viola amps and a comparatively "humble" Electrocompaniet EMC1 as source: this was really emotional stuff and the speakers also managed to do the disappearing act. Unbeatable raw fun was the Martion Orgon with an iMac as source, Aqvox DAC and the dwarfish new Martion preamp (many people will have missed this, as they were showing on the BMW premisses next door).
And then there was Sunray.
smoothjazz
24 posts
 
Which Tidal speakers were in the demo, and what amps were being used?
karelfd
476 posts
 
speakers: Tidal Sunray
w/ active crossover: Tidal LPX
pre-amp: Tidal Presencio
amps: 4 Tidal Impact monos

for a (sadly only visual) impression, see the last picture on my system thread.
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kops
478 posts
 
Tidal in Munich was a total disaster, dull sounding no life no sparkle no live music.
argyro
438 posts
 
Friday was indeed not very good but on Sunday EASILY out of this world sound! Don't know what Jorn has done but I think he has found the holy Grail in speaker manufacturing!

I'm still in Munich and I can't get over the amazing sound I heard yesterday! Mind you I stayed in the room for 1 hour!!!!

Wish I'll be able to own these speakers one day!!!!!!
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