Tidal speakers... particulary Tidal Sunray

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.

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.

Hello to all,

I have the privilege of announcing that Robin Loggie of Loggie Audio will be exhibiting the $28,800 Tidal Piano Cera at the 2010 California Audio Show, along with Ypsilon electronics.

www.caaudioshow.com

Thank you.

Constantine Soo

Fizzletop, Did you get to here the Magico Q5's

Husk01, yes I visited the actual Magico room twice with the Q5 (Magico speakers were in several other rooms as well). I actually thought that the Q5's were very good and my take is that Alon has taken his experience and customer/dealer feedback to date and come up with a speaker that is more practical to drive and better sounding than past efforts. Personally, this is more a speaker I respect than love though.