New TAD CE-1 Monitor

[Spinpsycho]

Wow $2,400 for an ugly looking stand? And $24,000 for a bookshelf speakers? That's is just insane.

[joey_v]

Originally Posted by Spinpsycho

Wow $2,400 for an ugly looking stand? And $24,000 for a bookshelf speakers? That's is just insane.

Yep, 24,000$ for some great speakers I am sure. Fits certain environments and fits certain tastes.

I think it's a win win.

[Masterlu]

They garnered a lot of positive attention at my recent show.

[Spinpsycho]

I'm sure it's a nice sounding speakers..no doubt..but how many people are actually buying one? Pioneer Corporation charges a premium for
their top of line Reference Series Audio products.

[Masterlu]

Originally Posted by Spinpsycho

I'm sure it's a nice sounding speakers..no doubt..but how many is actually buying one?

[Spinpsycho]

but your not paying full price since your a TAD dealer. I would get one if I could get one at dealer cost.

[Masterlu]

Originally Posted by Spinpsycho

but your not paying full price since your a TAD dealer. I would get one if I could get one at dealer cost.

Actually, one of the attendee's from last weeks Party ordered a pair.

[Mattia]

In the end, production Country and selling figures aside (that interest me only to a certain point): how do the CE-1 sound compared to the CR-1? They still have the TAD "house sound"?
I sadly never managed to listen to them, but someone mentioned (I don't remember where) that the CE-1 have a quite good price/performance ratio compared to the CR-1, and they sound surprisingly similar. But you Ivan that have both and I imagine directly compared them, can surely tell us more

[stock78]

Originally Posted by Masterlu

They garnered a lot of positive attention at my recent show.

I heard both TAD Evolution One and Compact Evolution One besides Magico S3.
TAD Compact E1 is comparable or even better although different than the Magico, which is already excellent, at a much lower price (here €20K including stands vs €33K).

Found the TAD E1 distinctively better dan S3 especially dynamics, stage, focus, openness. Magic came in here with the TAD!

YMMV of course.

[Formerly YB-2]

For folks that may not be familiar with TAD, they have been supplying TOTL speakers, especially raw drivers, for many years. They have always been expensive relative to many other brands and have always been the driver-of-choice for folks who can afford them to build single-driver, highly efficient speakers for SET amps and such. My neighbor's retirement passion was designing and building SET amps and matching speakers. He had a couple of dozen different TAD drivers and they were all $1500+. About equally split between full-range and tweeters. In addition, he had two pairs of TAD speakers that were in the $10-20K range. Both were 2-driver floor standers in piano black. This was well before TAD became tied in with Pioneer and started marketing speakers in NA. They have a great deal of 'history'.