The test set-up
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We let the TAD CE1TX monitors burn in in the Alpha Cinema for a few days. Just to be sure, because they already played for more than a week at AudioFeel. Then we moved it to the main system. During the ‘burn in days’, we noticed that the speaker sounds very nice in the cinema as well. Now the Illusonic is a wonderful processor, but the power amplifier is nothing special; it is a 7-channel surround power amplifier. And yet it sounds anything but lousy. That promises something!
The test setup
- Pass Labs XP-12 and X150.8
- Sonnet Pasithea
- Mutec MC3+ reclocker with AAI pucks
- Alpha Audio PC with Jcat USB and Ethernet cards
- Pura Audio Dodo PSU (5V) for the JCat cards
- Grimm TPM cabling
- Driade Flow cabling (speaker / interlinks)
- Isotek filters(Titan / Aquarius)
- YETI Power cables
- Driade Flow Reference 808
- Van den Hul Nova speaker cable
I’ve got my eyes the TAD CE1TX, just need to find a pair for demo. I stuck between Wilson Sasha DAW and these TAD.
There must be a dealer in the UK…
I’m in Sweden 🙂 I’ve found a dealer and i’m going on a road trip this tuesday to Demo the ME-1,CE1TX and E2, along with Maigco A1.
Oeee… That is a nice quartet indeed! Curious what the outcome will be. E2 is very different from the CE1TX…
All speakers will be running through Audio research preamp and Mcintosh power since that’s the combination i have at home. Yes, i can’t wait.
Sounds like a VERY nice combo. TAD is not hard to drive… Magico I don’t know.