Is Tidal Sunray much more difficult to get high/


extreme performance compared to the Tidal CDSE ? Which amps would you use for either ? Am planning a once in XXX years upgrade to my system. Have some old mac gear MC2720 and C37 power and pre respectively, transport Wadia wt-2000, Wadia Digital 2000 DAC, B and W 804s (being the most recent addition 7-8 years ago !). Read about the Devialet D Premier and thought would do my wife a favor to reduce the amp clutter + more relevantly integrate my AV stuff using the devialet and stream music etc. 3 months later i realized my speakers are not good enough so did the rounds from Wilson to Verity. That then made me realize that i want to go back to ugly amps as the Devialet (which i must now sell at 3 months of age :)) while sounding great and looking gorgeous, wouldnt optimize speakers i might eventually buy. Am debating between tidal contrivas and the sunrays (different price points i know) and wanted to assess if people believed/knew /experienced a Sunray's performance in an open living room format versus that of a Contriva and more importantly if the sunrays would need much more expensive amps to get "value/extreme sound" from ?
rohitmalh
depends on your music taste, but i won't like the burmester-tidal combo, and if regarding tube power amp, i blew up mine, 150 watt tube when trying to drive sunray.
now i drive it with friend's ss monoblocks, the sound is more open, not restrained like before.
about contriva vs sunray, well, like geopolitis said, sunray is a more demanding speaker, so you will spend more to bring out its potential, but i can tell you that it is well spent.
regards
Hi ojdeteos
Makes sense.
I like rock and classical amongst other things...
Wow - your tube amp tripped despite being 150 per channel... What about all the people who drive it ( or say they do) with 25 watt SETs...
Ss = ?
Also how much did you pay for your used Sunrays? I checked on Audiogon but they dont have any history on Tidals ( I was happy to subscribe to the blue book but Tidal isn't listed in the menu)
I saw a new focal grand utopia for 32000 USD on audiogon and given that the new sunray and new grande utopia are similar, I couldnt help wondering...
i remembered that the time my amp blew up, i tried more complex music with higher volume... well lesson learned, all my acquaintance laugh when they heard
i think different setup at different room will have have different impact on people. i have tried boulder stereo, karan monoblocks (900 and 2000), cary stereo, i am curious about tidal's own amp, but there are none available here, IMO for now, big karan can make sunray sings very nice.
about the price, i think it will depend on demand, i got mine at a good price from a friend, at agon they usually float at 70K and some at 80K.
Is it all about the power/ current or is the "gain" of the amp / nature of transformers used important too? I ask because I've read about Sunrays driven by burmester 911 monoblocks . I know from listening and then reasoning with experts that burmester bec of its design has a compensating effect on the 50-100 hz region of a speaker ( heard a non sunray tidal and a kaiser kawero with different burmester stereo power amps) and effectively " rocks the bass" more while making classical music edges a bit more rounded ... Thoughts on burmester for sunray and if one 909 mk5 would do or if absolute wattage as you mention is needed?
if you don't buy TIDAL amps or TIDAL LPX
personal i suggest you don't buy Sunray

there is a pair Sunray T1 in Audiogon
only ask for price $59500USD
and maybe you can have more better price after negotiate
this pair already save a lots,what you save can hlep you buy 2 TIDAL impulse amps(active crossover inside)

Sunray is a Heaven/Hell Speaker
without TIDAL amps and Active ,
it will be more eazy put you in the hell