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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
maxx1973

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karelfd
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... talking of power, Jörn confirmed that they actually will bring the Sunray to Munich this year and drive them with 4 Impact mono blocks (with Tidal LPX active cross-over).

You bet I already have my train tickets and hotel reservation!
karelfd
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Hi Ozy, I just returned from the Munich High End. I can now understand the disappearing act you're talking about. Tidal played (on purpose) at a much lower volume than the rest of the exhibitors to let people experience the extreme finesse of detail, monitor-like coherence and incredibly fine-layered micro-dynamics that these speakers are capable of. Even then, and with all the bright lights on, you could actually fix your eyes on the speakers and not tell these sculptures were actually the source of the sound that just magically emanated from the stage unfolding in front of you. What a difference compared to some other (much renown!) speakers that at almost distorting volume and under the veil of movie theatre darkness still had the sound glued to them and a big hole in between them.
karelfd
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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.
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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