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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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geopolitis
138 posts
 
I agree with Argyro that the sound was not good on Friday. Having heard the Sunray before I found the Tidal system lacking resolution and it was sounding too boring in the first day of the Munich show. But when I listened to the same system two days later I was shocked. It was easily the best sound I have heard in my life and almost impossible to distinguish from live music. Many congratulations to Tidal for creating a system that has practically no competition.
argyro
438 posts
 
Yes it was indeed impossible to distinguish the system from live music! I know this statement sounds like I am exaggerating but it Is so true!
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kops
478 posts
 
I heard it on Friday and a little on Saturday morning....If Argyro and geopolitis state that something changed maybe is the case.
But what is the reason of metamorphosis in 1 day?
geopolitis
138 posts
 
Kops,
I don't know why the performance of this system was not what it should be on Friday morning. Either the amplifiers needed some warm up After the aircondition operation through the night or the Argento cables needed some serious break in. I tend to think of the second case because I had similar experience in my system when I first installed them.
fizzletop
6 posts
 
I was at the show on Friday and Saturday and visited the Tidal room on both days. On the Friday the sound was ok, on Saturday it was poor. One of the key products I travelled to Munich to listen were the Tidal speakers...I really wanted to like them but ultimatley didn't. They were flat sounding with little weight to the sound. The room was immaculately presented, the people were professional, the guy spinning vinyl was fantastic. I happened to fly out and sat next to someone who knows Tidal speakers and they told me they were capable of much more....maybe it was the electronics? FWIW, my two favourite speakers at the show were the Purist electrostatics (Euro 58k...ouch) and the Raidho C3s in the Nordost room.....two brands I had never heard of before the show. Biggest disappointment, Vandersteen 7s....Richard was in the room so I figure they were setup ok but they sounded midfi to me.
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