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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #129: TAD or not to TAD, it is not the my opinion maters… by Romy the Cat on 2008-04-29 
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Well, it is certainly not our objectives to define were one or another driver, in this case TADs, would punch up in regards to other drivers. I presume that any driver if a sufficient amount of time, effort and love invested might blossom with differ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #28: Some guesses about modular construction of Cessaro line: by NBC on 2007-03-11 
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(Note: I've neither seen nor heard these speakers) Cessaro ALPHA: TAD TD-4001 2" driver on tractrix horn with 56cm bell (approximately 250Hz). TAD claims response from 600-20KHz. Given that the midbass is essentially a direct radiator (theref...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Cessaro: Samarium vs. Neodymium by Romy the Cat on 2006-12-10 
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Well, it was not trick question; I thought initially that they were TADs. However, TAD uses Alnico7, Alnico 5 and Neodymium magnets not the cobalt magnet. The TADs drivers do not cost €4K but rather €1.5K.  I never heard TAD use Samarium-Cobalt ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: Cesarro, field coil and TADs. by Romy the Cat on 2012-05-08 
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[quote user="Wojtek"]and especially "perfectionists" markets like Germany. Sound is of a secondary importance. I bet the new driver from Cesarro will be field coil driver because that's what peoplewant NOW. They want "the best" and field coil is now ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #60: TAD PT-R9 by robmatthew on 2007-01-05 
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I read your comments re: the PT-R9. I have a pair which also measure about 9 dB below my Supravox 200 EXC drivers in sensitivity using the Earthworks measuring mike on the DEQX unit. They do sound very nice, however. Also, I find this site to ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: Point taken Paul -- but isn't Musil* a tad rarified to serve as a ref:... by Gregm on 2006-12-06 
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As compared to the Melq, which is an amplifier. OK, it performs its job within a system... but, then, aren't other amplifiers "systemic" as well? I wonder whether other open designs are actually taken up by hobbyists... you do mention that ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Tad 703 by coops on 2008-10-17 
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Cessaro in fact make a spherical brass horn for the 703, drop Ralph a line ( at cessaro ) I am sure he will be answer any queries. Keith....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: TAD TM-1201 observations by noviygera on 2018-01-19 
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There seems to be a lack of useful feedback on the actual sound quality of these oddball, relatively rare TAD mids. So I think it would be helpful to share some basic observations I gather after listening to them for a couple of days. I install these...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: TAD drivers you have evaluated by NBC on 2007-03-11 
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Hi Romy, Since you have certain opinions on TAD/Beryllium sound, Im curious: 1) Which TAD drivers you evaluated (2001, 2002, 4001, 4002, 4003) ? 2) With what Fc horns? 3) With what horn materials? 4) With what Xovers? Thanks! ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: How to use the TAD 1201? by Romy the Cat on 2008-01-03 
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Greg, I see a regions of concerns that you might contemplate. TAD 1201 might be good driver but how useable would be the 200/300-800/1000 range? Let pretend that you end up with 250Hz, then what next? You will introduce a bottom octave section but t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: There is a thing about the TAD drivers…. by Romy the Cat on 2008-01-12 
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I do not have lot of experience with TAD cone drivers but there is a thing bout then that always afraid. A few years ago I was at demonstration of Model-1, the TAD’s $50,000 flagman model and it had very strange feeling – the speakers sounded surpri...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #132: The cost of the TAD drivers - I migh be wrong... by Romy the Cat on 2008-04-29 
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[quote user="Merlin"]Where Romy is wrong is the cost of TAD drive units.[/quote]Well, perhaps my outdated memory plays a bad joke on me. What I remember from beginning of 2000s that TAD 2001 cost around $1200 retail with “street price” of $900. The w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: The TAD 1201 drivers can take you on a road by Romy the Cat on 2008-01-03 
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[quote user="homebuilder"]...active EQ will be a part of this project, along with in room measurement. My friend will do the honors on that. I have not purchased an EQ yet. [/quote] You might eventually revise your view about the active EQ and pres...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: TAD 1201 by malinowski on 2008-01-12 
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Hi Greg,linkSearch the site and you'll find that Ulf has created a upper bass horn using the aforementioned TAD 1201's.I also own a pair still in boxes waiting for the weather to warm up enough for me to start some enclosures and horns for.My origina...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Modifying TAD 2404 by bluewolf on 2016-09-30 
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Hi, I want to get inside a pair of Pioneer Exclusive TAD 2404. I have unscrewed the external crossover on the back panel and all the other screws including those of the two wooden crossbeams but the back panel does not budge. So I tried taking out th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Ah, the TAD PT-R9! by Romy the Cat on 2006-10-20 
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Thanks Gregm. It is interesting that I completely forgot the TAD PT-R9. I was looking at it 5-6 years back and spoke with AudioKinesis ‘Duke, who reportedly knows them well. My reservations that time were the very same as now: with 97.5 dB/W sensitiv...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Cessaro’s TAD illness. by Romy the Cat on 2012-05-06 
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[quote user="el`Ol"]Cessaro once again didn't manage to find electronics that compensate the cold TAD sound, [/quote] Very lucid comment. Still, do you feel that “special” electronics will help? I am a bit surprised about Cessaro. They have many mode...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: TAD time alignment and Too much choice with Yamamoto by enjoy_the_music on 2007-12-06 
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HiWell I am fairly new to active speakers. I've been in contact with Merlin and Guy in the UK about these type of speakers and their experiences. I'm just taking it all in and then going forward making a few mistakes and then learning about them!&nbs...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #82: Other drivers: TAD or Vitavox by Murataltuev on 2015-09-14 
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[quote user="Jorge"]I tend to like drivers with plastic suspension. Radian makes retrofit diaphragms for JBL with plastic suspension, maybe they will help you achieve the tone you are looking for. Extensions are easy to machine out of aluminum, eve...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: More about TAD modification. by Romy the Cat on 2016-10-01 
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Bluewolf, I do not have experience with modification of TAD drivers. You did not say what you want to modify, what you want to accomplish but this is a separate story.   Interesting that the whole notion of TAD drivers modification is kind of p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: TAD 1201 re-dux by homebuilder on 2008-01-03 
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Romy:Thank you for the reply.  First, a correction:  I have a pair of TAD 1201.  The MTM idea would utilize other drivers, such as the LE-8, 2118, etc.  I'm certainly not against buying another pair of TAD, however.The 1201 w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #121: TAD by Merlin on 2008-04-28 
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Romy, I often note that you describe TAD compression drivers as being not to your taste. Could you tell us which of their range of drive units you have direct experience of and on what horns? With regards to value for money, no such thing exist...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #139: TAD 2002 by be on 2008-04-29 
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"TAD TD-2002 seems to have that "interesting" tone"The TAD TD-2002 has an interesting frequency responce, it goes as a technically perfect driver should up to app, 15Khz  then there is an unusually softly rounded peak around 20kHz with an amplit...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #63: TAD ET-703 Cobalt Magnet by malinowski on 2007-07-30 
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TAD ET-703 LinkMAGNETIC CIRCUIT. A high-energy, rare-earth cobalt magnet is used in the magnetic circuit that, together with powerful soft iron for the pole yoke and plate, provides a high magnetic flux density of 20,000G. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #68: Neodymium vs. Cobalt as far as TAD concern. by Romy the Cat on 2007-07-31 
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Well, let start with factual data: http://www.mceproducts.com/knowledge-base/article/article-dtl.asp?id=32 How relevant it is for us, the audio people? Probably very little, and the most important it does not answer why TAD use cobalt in their twee...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #81: Tad 1601b by kodomo on 2015-09-14 
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Hi Mats,I am not using 4 on each side. I will be using two on each side. Until now I always liked sealed enclosures. However Tad drivers are more suited to ported configurations. If you do not push them to go too low and have a reasonable fs point, t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: TAD direct radiators are garbidge. by Romy the Cat on 2018-01-20 
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[quote user="noviygera"]… everything sounds loud and compressed, as thought the music that I know so well has compressed the hell out of it….[/quote] Well, as far as I concerned, you have characterized ANY TAD non-compress...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #123: TAD, recognizable announces and me.... by Romy the Cat on 2008-04-28 
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[quote user="Merlin"] ... I often note that you describe TAD compression drivers as being not to your taste. Could you tell us which of their range of drive units you have direct experience of and on what horns?  [/quote] When I experimented wi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #128: TAD by coops on 2008-04-29 
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Pete, I met Kevin and his wife for the very first time at Munich, what a charmimg couple, personally I am very much looking forward to hearing his new horns, any commercial manufacturer making horn loudspeakers has to be a good thing. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #142: From an experienced TAD (TD2001) user... by Paul Butterfield on 2008-04-30 
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Hi Romy, 'tis been awhile, but my friend Neil alerted me to this discussion, and thought I might contribute to it. While this segment of my TAD 'Whitepaper' deals with only the bugscreen, there are many other …" evolved results…" that, to my ear, and...
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