Tidal speakers... particulary Tidal Sunray

Sorry guys but the Magico systems I heard in the High End Show were very mediocre comparing to Tidal on Sunday. Magico just sounded fake (especially the ones driven by the Soulution amplifiers, the other model driven by Spectral was slighlty better)...

I attended all days at Munich. Tidal sunray were by far the most impressiv system there. ususally I´m not so impressed by ceramic drivers. They tend to sound alike with the small highlight on upper midrange/lower tweeter. A small tendens of harshness mixed with this pregnant mean tone that colours voices in particular. You could here it in the Kharma room (I had to leave after 3 minutes due to this well known fenomen) and the other rooms using the ceramics. With one exception, the Tidal sunray. There on the other hand were no ceramic sound at all.

I agree with someone else in this thread that Sunray presented a live performance as realistic as i´ve ever heard. And I´ve heard quite a lot thru the years.

TAD sounded impressiv but too much. A litle bit like old school Infinity mixed with JBL proffessional systems (OK, I´m overdoing this but you got the meaning). Sounded as the "Hifi"-syndrome instead of a live performance.

Over all there were a lot of good Hifi going on at the MOC show but the Tidal system were alone on the very top. I was really surprised but 10 visits on different places in the room with all that kind of music going on showed the fact. This was one of that rare moments with absolute top performance. We both vept and hade goosebumps all over. I wonder what this system could do in a room without MOC:s boomy floor and in a quiet surrounding...

And no ceramic sound what so ever! Astonishing...

Wiredup we seem to agree on everything. Yes, although TAD wanted to invite you "into" the music sometimes it reminded me of old JBL's. It didnt have that "elegance" if I could say so we are so used in "high-end" audio. I suppose it ultimately lacked some transpareny and micro-detail.

in all fairness too ALL of the aforementioned speakers, we all know that show conditions are far less than optimal. of course ,all exhibitors try their very best to tame the room acoustics ,deal with noisy floors, crowds, and electricity. the results ,at best, are allowing one, only to get a glimpse of what the system in mind can and should do. it's like test driving a high -perfromance car- you ought to drive it in different settings to appreciate its attributes. same here- if one liked the tidal sound at the mhe show , but was n't"blown away", he /she ought to try and listen to it in a different settings , before passing absolute judgment.
i can only attest that in my room ,with my front end and amps the sunrays are magically stunning!

Hifishows is for real not a easy game for the companies that is demonstrating. I guess most of the people in here are experienced hifishow-visitors as myself. Before the show you know that there will be too loud, to much boomy bass, many rooms with bright and gray sound and a lot of the same music in many rooms.

I would never take an option away only on the basis of listening experince on a hifishow. The TAD for instance I´ve heard perfom better but still not my cup of tea. The Kharma..., no, I don´t know what to say, a disapointment and clearly a ceramic sound.

To the point then, what made me post my meaning were that even under those circumstances the Tidal were awsome! One of the best sound I´ve heard and way better than Marten coltrane, Kharma 2 and 3, Wilson W/P7 and 8, Maxx 2, all listened to in controlled and good rooms. Wilson Alexandria is the real stuff but never made me cry. That the Tidal did and it´s a quality mark as good as anything.

Someone else may have the emotion on other sepakers but I´m afraid I´m hooked :-)