Tidal Speakers owners

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

Maceear, I guess it was three Rocky Mountain Audio Fests ago, that I heard a demonstration of the Synergistic Research ARTs. They merely played music and then took the five active units off the walls and replayed the music. The image, resolution, dynamics, and bass collapsed. Everyone asked immediately that they be put back in. I bought them on the spot.

I have been in several demonstrations but this was rivaled only by that for the Murata supertweeters I heard at CES years ago.

I have since added two addition sets of the ART Basiks and one additional ART Base Station. The Basiks are primarily for my NM summer home, but I bring them home.

Iron cups are the basic element in both the ART and ART Basik systems. These cups fit on wall mounts that are placed on the four walls at selected heights. There is a Bass Station in both that now sits in front of each of my Contrivas as well as another in front of my Zu Method subwoofer.

The Zilplex resonators would have to climb a tall mountain to outperform these resonators.

Maceear, neither "Wiebe" nor "ZILPLEX" can be found in search mode. Can you provide any email or contact info for more understanding to this product?