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Review TAD Evolution 2 floorstanding speaker – competition killer

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Pros

  • Plays very easily
  • Layered
  • Complete
  • Balanced

Cons

  • No 'sexy' look

Price: € 14250 per paar

Build quality
Controllability
Sound
Price

The set-up

TAD Evolution 2

We have heard the TAD on several amplifiers and dacs. Most of the time we played on the Pass Labs X150.8, because this really is a match made in heaven. Both dacs – the Grimm UC1 and the Sonnet Pasithea sound very good on this speaker. This is because the TAD manages to expose the accents beautifully, without showing any sharpness.

Type test
Single Test
Speaker class
Floor standing speaker
Speaker type
Dynamic
Speaker system
Bass reflex
Signal control
Passive
Frequency range
30 Hz - 60.000 Hz
Crossover
2,5-way
Efficiency
87 dB
Impedance
6 Ohm
Dimensions
  • Width: 32 cm
  • Depth: 40 cm
  • Height: 111 cm
Weight speaker
32 Kg
Measurements
Impulse - 3ms - 1 meter recht
Impulse - 3ms - 1 meter recht
Vervorming - raw - 1 meter - recht
Vervorming - raw - 1 meter - recht
Distortion - simultanious - 15ms - 1 meter recht
Distortion - simultanious - 15ms - 1 meter recht
Distortion - simultanious - perceptual 15ms - 1 meter recht
Distortion - simultanious - perceptual 15ms - 1 meter recht
Distortion - simultanious - 15ms - 3 meter - of axis
Distortion - simultanious - 15ms - 3 meter - of axis
Distortion - simultanious - 15ms - 1 meter of axis
Distortion - simultanious - 15ms - 1 meter of axis
Respons - 3 meters - couch - off axis
Respons - 3 meters - couch - off axis
Response - 1 meter - off axis - 30ms
Response - 1 meter - off axis - 30ms
Response - 1 meter - 30ms
Response - 1 meter - 30ms
Response - 1 meter - 3ms
Response - 1 meter - 3ms

Winkels met TAD

Hennesweg 20
6035 AD Ospel, NL
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William Turner
3 years ago

I’m looking for speakers and have more or less decided on Wilson Sasha 2, but before I commit I’m I the process of having my last look around and TAD speakers keep coming up hence Alpha audio. Question is the only time I’ve heard TAD was about 5 years ago and i found the tweeter a wee bit to bright for my taste. Any idea how modern TAD tweeters sound compared to Wilson’s latest silk dome tweeter??

Martijn (redacteur)
Reply to  William Turner
3 years ago

We haven’t compared those, so it is impossible to tell.

William Turner
Reply to  Jaap Veenstra
3 years ago

How about the difference between the Focal and TAD tweeter? All speakers that i’ve experienced with beryllium have a more upper brightness to there character?

Martijn (redacteur)
Reply to  William Turner
3 years ago

I second that. The TAD Evolution 2 is far from what I would describe as sharp. A good way to hear for yourself, just watch this livestream featuring a live band with Middle Eastern music that hit the upper registers. Since the TAD Evolution 2 is against non-beryllium tweeter competitors, the differences in that spectrum are quite easy to hear: https://www.youtube.com/live/HWAKn9BJ_NA

William Turner
Reply to  Martijn (redacteur)
2 years ago

I’m going to travel half way across Sweden to a shop that has the Evolution 2’s for demo, I found that latest live stream with your Tad evo 2’s sounding amazing here in my listening room. I’m looking for my last speaker, 35 years of hifi is coming to an end for me. My system and room is all in order, just need speakers. Top of my list is the Raidho D2.1, but first i want to here the Tad evo 2’s before i commit to the Raidho D2.1. And it ‘s typical that the only pair of Raidho D2.1 for sale is in Holland.

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