Tidal Speakers owners

Tbg,

you need to focus on the fact that the Sunray is a two-and-half way design whereas the Contriva is a three-way design. That makes the Sunray more coherent and easier to place despite its size. It is possible to listen near-field with a Sunray but impossible to do that with a Contriva.

Sunray also has superior drivers ("black ceramic") plus superior cabin construction. There are certain reasons why it is so expensive compared to the Contriva Diacera. Tidal Sunray is a totally different beast and quite possibly the best speaker in the world...

Geopolitis, frankly all of that is irrelevant for me. I don't know what is near-field for you but I the Contrivas are ten feet apart and I listen to them about ten feet from both. My room is well treated so I have no temptation to be closer.

Bear in mind that I am saying only that the Contriva diacera SEs at the RMAF after three days of breakin and on Ypsilon electronics sounded better than any of the Sunrays I have heard until the last day at this years CES being run with Bridge Audio electronics. That is my opinion, which of course, is all that matters. I am very happy with my Contrivas, but would never make your statement, as I think in all cases, that many factors affect what people hear.

Geopolitis, any idea how "black" ceramic driver different from white one?

Quanmer,

you better ask Tidal for more technical info.... But I know for sure that the speaker designer considers the Black Ceramic drivers to be superior...

""Geopolitis, any idea how "black" ceramic driver different from white one?""

hm.. a diferent colour maybe.