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Re: how was the TAD room?

I was underwhelmed by the TAD room. The sound of the system was rather sterile and unexpressive. To be fair to TAD I wasn't able to sit on the couch in the sweet spot and had to stand behind it so my ears were a couple of feet above the level of the tweeters. For whatever reason I never found myself drawn into the music. In comparison, Jeff Joseph's demo of a floor - standing speaker (RM-33Si maybe?) for example made unfamiliar music consistently compelling even though I was sitting several feet to the outside of the right speaker. The Zu guys played a cover of a Lynyrd Skynyrd song reimagined as an acoustic country song - a genre of music in which I usually have little interest - and it made me want to run over to the Virgin store in Times Square to buy the CD. TAD didn't help themselves by playing stereotypically wimpy audiophile music at a relatively low volume. You could almost drown out the demo by whispering. I'd think that one of the primary reasons for buying a large expensive full range speaker is to reproduce music at a bigger scale than small monkey coffins can ever do, yet TAD seemed reluctant to take the Ref 1 out of first gear and open 'er up. C'mon TAD, you had 400 watts behind each speaker, why not rock the house a little?



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