Happily, the fine folks at TAD/Pioneer were all too delighted to indulge my request and also offered to send the matching speaker stands, the DA1000 DAC and a M2500 stereo power amplifier along help recreate the synergy that I heard at CES. First question would TAD simply scoff at my request to review a not-insubstantially priced piece of equipment? Second question at the off chance that they wouldn’t dismiss me completely, how many of my offspring would I have commit to indentured servitude in exchange for the privilege of listening to the CE-1s in my house? I came away from the show duly impressed but I really wanted to see if those speakers could bring a similar performance to my home environment as opposed to a well-crafted show display. A quick glance around confirmed that many of the other show attendees were having similar experiences. Playing selected music tracks from a laptop, connected via USB cable to a TAD DA1000 DAC and through a TAD preamplifier and finally a pair of TAD mono-block amplifiers, the sound was vibrant, clean and lifelike with tight, extended bass throughout the room. There we find TAD Labs newest loudspeaker, the CE 1, powered by a dedicated line of TAD electronics.Īndrew Jones (who has since left TAD/Pioneer and moved to ELAC) was leading the introduction/demonstration of the TAD CE 1s to a constantly packed room of listeners. A few more critically acclaimed speaker models later, we fast forward to January 2015 at CES in Las Vegas and to one of the best sounding rooms, in my personal opinion, of the entire show. Tapping both Pioneer’s heritage in speaker making and TAD’s expertise with professional technologies such as concentric and compression drivers and component materials like magnesium and beryllium, TAD developed and released their first consumer speaker in 2003, the well regarded TAD Model 1. TAD, Coaxial, Beryllium, Concept Evolution, Bookshelf SpeakersĬoinciding with this new initiative was the hiring of well-known speaker designer and engineer Andrew Jones, formerly of KEF and Infinity, to work with the all Japanese team.
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