Tidal Speakers owners

Hello Quanmer,
Nice that you feel the same thing about this. My system is digital only now (my brother is the analogue side of the family). My player is the Wadia 381i GNSC Statement replacing the dCS Elgar Plus and Purcell. My amplifier is the mentioned Atma Sphere MA1 (1989 with the most important updates). Cabling is from the young company Zu Audio (Ibis loudspeakercable, Varial xlr and Mother / Bok Powercables). My most important acoustic treatment is the ZILPLEX resonator. I do play mostly blues, jazz and guitar rock but always looking for something new. I did sell about all my guitars, my latest was the Taylor W15

Regards
Robert

Maceear, what is ZILPLEX? Can't find any in Google.

Hello Quanmer,
The Zilplex are resonators from a very small company. Audiogon member Wiebe can tell you more about this.
They are dealing with different artefacts in the listening room. I can't tell you why, but you can hear the difference.
Regards
Robert

Macceear, since member Wiebe has not added to this, can you please tell us more about the Zilplex?

Hello All, Sorry for the late answer (work and time-difference)
Zilplex consist off:
Three leg’s (a reversed tripod) holding a silver cup (about 0.5 inch 12.5 mm). This all is fitted on a Plexiglas triangle (0.8 * 0.8 inch – 20*20 mm) which you can stick to the wall. There is also a possibility to stick this to the ceiling and or floor. The benefits are that they are small and immediately working. Only for the bass modules the thickness of the reversed tripod legs are different, the silver cups are all the same. I do use 11 of them: 7 behind the speakers, 2 left and right aside the listening position, 1 behind the listening position and 1 on the ceiling. The main effect is that the walls are disappearing. We think that the cups are triggered by the sound and resonating in a higher frequency and interfering again with the lower audible frequencies and this time delay creates a feeling of… what? Space perhaps? The brain is fooled I guess in a positive way, the room becomes bigger and easier with sound. Articulation with voices (real humans and television etc.) is much better and the room is more silence. I use this for two years now and was very skeptical in the beginning. But after many demonstrations I was convinced and did try it by myself. The sound situation (without the resonators) must be in good order…. the Zilplex can’t do wonders. The effort with zilplex and the Avalon’s was bigger then with the Contriva’s, that’s perhaps because I did use the same position. When the Contriva’s arrived, the cups where not placed and I just want to get used to the Contriva’s before I try different positions. There are many people (individuals and dealers, at home and at shows) who use them here in Europe, but the audiogon member Wiebe does not have a website and makes them all by hand.
Further: Contriva’s are a real easy load for the Atma Sphere: I did try them with only half of the tubes installed (MA1 to MA50 ( MA60 ).
Halving the output and doubling the impedance and there was no real difference, except for the smaller macro dynamics and bass stability and then only when playing loud…..
Regards
Robert