Tidal have you heard them? Are they your favs?

I heard them Friday at RMAF and thought they sounded quite good. They are able to reproduce treble in a manner that gets the detail an clarity of the music without sounding over emphasized and bright, which I found to be an issue with 90% of the other speakers on display.

They also reproduce bass with clarity and control, and without boominess.

On Friday, I thought the mids had some boxiness at times. At one point near the end of the day when the room was empty except for myself, a friend, and the two gentlemen from Tidal. We were making a return trip to the room, and the guys recognized us. One of the Tidal owners (I'm assuming he was the owner...maybe not...) commented that they were quite frustrated with the sound they were getting due to the hotel room. At that point, they had not installed much in the way of room correction acoustic tweaks. Although he did not address the midrange boxiness specifically, I wonder if this was one of the problems to which he was referring.

pedrillo....as an owner of contriva diacera-ses i can personnally attest to the fact that my tidal speakers are superb.i have had many speakers over the last 20+ years and heard alot of what are considered 'the best' speakers and to my ears these are at or near the top of that list.they do nothing wrong with any of the frequencies and do most everything superbly.music has never sounded as natural as it does now...i can listen to music for hours and hours without the slightest hint of fatigue.i have heard the piano ceras and they,too, are superb.hope this helps

I believe the Piano Diacera are the model being demonstrated at RMAF 2010. The info was left out of my post above.

Yes the Medium Tidals at RMAF are in my opinion better than the big brothers, they sound more cohesive and man they have depth to die for

Will listen more tomorrow

Des

On Sunday, as I said on the Tidal thread, the Pianos were very good. However, they did not reach the level of the Contriva Diacera SEs, at least not in my room. Also, I was not very impressed until Sunday.

I also told Jorn that I thought any of his speakers would be greatly improved using the new StillPoints Ultimate SS feet. I put them under my Contrivas just before the show and could not believe the improvement I heard in clarity and bass.

Frankly, I have heard no speaker that gets anywhere near these speakers. I think the 1" diamond tweeter is a must for them, however.