TIDAL is a company founded in 1999, but it seems that the real promotion in the Chinese market has been something in recent years. There are not many TIDAL products, mainly speakers, followed by amplifiers and D/A converters. However, when you see TIDAL's speakers, even if you don't know TIDAL and don't know what fever speakers are, but when you see the delicate and delicate craftsmanship and noble appearance, your brain's first reaction is "very expensive" and "top audio"! That's right, TIDAL's audio is expensive, and strictly speaking, it's not cheap. A pair of speakers priced at hundreds of thousands of yuan is only entry-level. As for how much the most expensive set costs, you can imagine it.
What I am commenting on this time is the TIDAL flagship AKIRA speaker. After seeing AKIRA, I counted its speaker unit, and there were 10 units in total. But don't worry, the only ones that are really driven by the amplifier are the five units in the front, and those behind are passive radiators, which are driven by the three woofers in the front.
uses sufficient materials, and is priced for the wealthy class
AKIRA is expensive. TIDAL can charge you such a price, and it will definitely give you a good explanation in terms of materials. First of all, all the speaker units you see on AKIRA are produced by Accuton, and all these units are customized by Accuton to TIDAL, so you can't find them on Accuton's official website, and at most you can only find similar products. As we all know, Accuton units are not cheap by themselves. However, for HI-END audio manufacturers who pursue excellence and the ultimate, only customized products can meet their requirements and make them feel reliable. Although the cost will increase further, the final product will sell for higher prices. But it should be clearly understood that the customer group TIDAL is all rich people at the top of the pyramid. Any house is tens of millions or even hundreds of millions. Compared with the next set of audio for millions, a set of audio for millions is nothing.
TIDAL's current speakers are the most dazzling part of the diamond diaphragm unit. Among them, AKIRA's tweeter and midrange unit are the diamond diaphragm units. It should be noted that the official TIDAL homepage emphasizes its diamond diaphragm unit as "pure diamond", pure diamond (CVD, artificial diamond ), which is distinct from other diamond diaphragm units but are actually diamond coating layers units. The advantage of pure diamonds is that they have better rigidity and are not easy to deform when large signals are input. However, the weight of the diaphragm will increase accordingly, so the driving force of the amplifier and the damping coefficient of are higher. The calibers of AKIRA's tweeter and midrange unit are 1.3 inches and 5 inches respectively, using 1 carat (0.2 grams) and 13 carat (2.6 grams) of diamonds respectively. The diamond diaphragm part of a speaker uses a total of 14 carats of diamonds, and a pair of speakers requires 28 carats of diamonds. For those who are familiar with diamonds, how much does the market price of these 28 grams of kara diamonds cost!
In addition to the pure diamond diaphragm unit you can see with your eyes, if you are an enthusiast, especially the DIY enthusiast group, once you see the parts on the AKIRA crossover, you will probably even saliva flow to the ground. Why? Because the parts on the frequency divider are either Duelund or Mundorf, they are all expensive supplements, and the market price of these piles of supplement parts is enough for many enthusiasts to buy a very good equipment. The interior of the
AKIRA speaker is a complex layer structure to support the box, making the box more solid and solid. In addition, the two pure diamond diaphragm units are installed in a sturdy stainless steel module
In terms of box manufacturing, AKIRA's box is divided into two layers inside and outside. The outer layer is an MDF board, which is mainly for convenient skin processing, and the inner inside is an exclusive TIRALIT-Ultra material. As for what it is, the manufacturer has not explained it, which is a secret that cannot be disclosed. Moreover, TIDAL also uses this material to make a support structure for reinforcement of the box. TIDAL is a company founded in 1999, but it seems that the real promotion in the Chinese market has been something in recent years. There are not many TIDAL products, mainly speakers, followed by amplifiers and D/A converters. However, when you see TIDAL's speakers, even if you don't know TIDAL and don't know what fever speakers are, but when you see the delicate and delicate craftsmanship and noble appearance, your brain's first reaction is "very expensive" and "top audio"! That's right, TIDAL's audio is expensive, and strictly speaking, it's not cheap. A pair of speakers priced at hundreds of thousands of yuan is only entry-level. As for how much the most expensive set costs, you can imagine it. What I am commenting on this time is the TIDAL flagship AKIRA speaker. After seeing AKIRA, I counted its speaker unit, and there were 10 units in total. But don't worry, the only ones that are really driven by the amplifier are the five units in the front, and those behind are passive radiators, which are driven by the three woofers in the front. uses sufficient materials, and is priced for the wealthy class AKIRA is expensive. TIDAL can charge you such a price, and it will definitely give you a good explanation in terms of materials. First of all, all the speaker units you see on AKIRA are produced by Accuton, and all these units are customized by Accuton to TIDAL, so you can't find them on Accuton's official website, and at most you can only find similar products. As we all know, Accuton units are not cheap by themselves. However, for HI-END audio manufacturers who pursue excellence and the ultimate, only customized products can meet their requirements and make them feel reliable. Although the cost will increase further, the final product will sell for higher prices. But it should be clearly understood that the customer group TIDAL is all rich people at the top of the pyramid. Any house is tens of millions or even hundreds of millions. Compared with the next set of audio for millions, a set of audio for millions is nothing. TIDAL's current speakers are the most dazzling part of the diamond diaphragm unit. Among them, AKIRA's tweeter and midrange unit are the diamond diaphragm units. It should be noted that the official TIDAL homepage emphasizes its diamond diaphragm unit as "pure diamond", pure diamond (CVD, artificial diamond ), which is distinct from other diamond diaphragm units but are actually diamond coating layers units. The advantage of pure diamonds is that they have better rigidity and are not easy to deform when large signals are input. However, the weight of the diaphragm will increase accordingly, so the driving force of the amplifier and the damping coefficient of are higher. The calibers of AKIRA's tweeter and midrange unit are 1.3 inches and 5 inches respectively, using 1 carat (0.2 grams) and 13 carat (2.6 grams) of diamonds respectively. The diamond diaphragm part of a speaker uses a total of 14 carats of diamonds, and a pair of speakers requires 28 carats of diamonds. For those who are familiar with diamonds, how much does the market price of these 28 grams of kara diamonds cost! In addition to the pure diamond diaphragm unit you can see with your eyes, if you are an enthusiast, especially the DIY enthusiast group, once you see the parts on the AKIRA crossover, you will probably even saliva flow to the ground. Why? Because the parts on the frequency divider are either Duelund or Mundorf, they are all expensive supplements, and the market price of these piles of supplement parts is enough for many enthusiasts to buy a very good equipment. The interior of the AKIRA speaker is a complex layer structure to support the box, making the box more solid and solid. In addition, the two pure diamond diaphragm units are installed in a sturdy stainless steel module
In terms of box manufacturing, AKIRA's box is divided into two layers inside and outside. The outer layer is an MDF board, which is mainly for convenient skin processing, and the inner inside is an exclusive TIRALIT-Ultra material. As for what it is, the manufacturer has not explained it, which is a secret that cannot be disclosed. Moreover, TIDAL also uses this material to make a support structure for reinforcement of the box.As for the paint treatment of the box, there are three layers of paint on the surface of the AKIRA speaker. Each layer of paint consumes 75 kilograms of paint, and each layer has been repeatedly polished. In addition, each speaker unit has a stainless steel frame that looks like a mirror, which is made by careful polishing. Therefore, labor costs cannot be low. The frequency divider of
AKIRA is exhausted. Among them, the inductor coil in the bass divider part is particularly large in size. This is the inductor customized by TIDAL to find Mundorf. The inductance reaches 16 millichrons and the DC resistance is 0.03 ohms. This requires users to think about the combination of the amplifier. If you really don’t want to worry about the amplifier, just buy the original amplifier.
The broadband and long-stroke design of 5-inch diameter
pure diamond midrange unit
There are very few speakers using pure diamond speaker units, but there are currently only TIDAL, a pure diamond midrange unit that uses 5-inch diameter. Regarding the performance parameters and related information of the speaker, the TIDAL official website provides very little information, and even some very basic performance parameters have not been disclosed. A lot of space still introduces its speaker unit, frequency divider materials, box structure, etc. Perhaps TIDAL thinks that users buy the speaker home to listen to music, not to study it. As long as they like it, they don’t need to pay attention to what kind of parameters they are.
Let’s talk about this pure diamond midrange unit, there are two known performances on the TIDAL official website. First, the maximum stroke is 7mm; second, the low frequency lower limit reaches 100Hz! But after I searched the Internet, I found a post on a foreign Stereophile website about visiting TIDAL founder Jorn Janczak. It turns out that the frequency response range of the pure diamond midrange TIDAL is very wide, with the upper limit of high frequency up to 16KHz. Combined with the lower limit of low frequency above, it is combined to 100Hz~16KHz! However, it is impossible to use all bandwidth of the unit in actual use. After all, each unit has the best performing frequency response range. TIDAL's approach is to distribute the one below 250Hz to three bass units, and to give it to the pure diamond tweeter above 2.2KHz. Although the frequency response is limited to 250Hz-2.2KHz, this frequency response range has already covered the sound of most instruments. Therefore, when we listen to AKIRA speakers, a large amount of sound actually comes from this midrange unit, and it has also become the main sound characteristic of AKIRA speakers. In an article on the interview with Jorn Janczak, founder of TIDAL, on the previous article on the website, we can get some information about this 5-inch pure diamond altogether from the content
AKIRA speaker model is TAD-190W-EX (left picture), which should be modified based on Accuton AS190-9-251 (right picture). According to the introduction of TIDAL's official website, TAD-190W-EX mainly modifies the magnetic circuit and uses TIRALIT-Ultra material to make basin racks. This convex bass woofer adopts an intrinsic hanging edge design, which avoids the interference of traditional hanging edges on the diffusion of sound waves. The diaphragm part has two main features. First, the sandwich-style structure; second, the surface of the diaphragm has many concave shapes, with the purpose of suppressing segmentation vibration. The model of the convex bass woofer used on the
AKIRA speaker is TAD-190W-EX (left picture), which should be changed based on Accuton AS190-9-251 (right picture). According to the introduction of TIDAL's official website, TAD-190W-EX mainly modifies the magnetic circuit and uses TIRALIT-Ultra material to make basin racks. This convex bass woofer adopts an intrinsic hanging edge design, which avoids the interference of traditional hanging edges on the diffusion of sound waves. The diaphragm part has two main features. First, sandwich-style structure; second, there are many concave shapes on the surface of the diaphragm, the purpose is to suppress segmentation vibration
uses convex bass woofer units to form a linear matrix structure
AKIRA's bass part consists of three convex bass woofer units on the front panel and five passive radiators on the back respectively.For the three linear array bass units on the front panel, the main purpose is to improve the sensitivity of the low frequency part and increase the bass volume. At the same time, the linear array structure is characterized by controlling the vertical diffusion of sound waves. Its vertical beam is close to the height of the bass line array, but it also has a wider horizontal diffusion, which can take care of a wider listening area. But it should be noted that listening to AIKIRA speakers requires a certain distance, and the height of the ear is flush with the midrange, or between the midrange and the bass unit, the sound waves emitted by the speaker unit are better integrated, so that smoother connections and clear sound image positioning can be heard. The five passive radiators on the back actually play a role in further increasing the bass energy.
As for this convex bass bass unit, in addition to TIDAL, such as Marten Design, Lumen White, Estelon and other manufacturers with cooperative relationships with Accuton, but most of them use ready-made products, and a few of them use customized products, and TIDAL is one of them. The materials and designs of the two are different. As for the performance difference between the two, I'm afraid only Accuton and TIDAL know this.
AKIRA speakers provide three terminals, namely the positive and negative pole and the ground terminal. I guess the ground terminal should be the metal part of the speaker unit, the frequency divider shell, etc. It was first proposed by Mr. Masazo Kinishi from Japan. It is applied to the TAD speaker, which can lead to static electricity generated by the air friction between the voice coil of the speaker unit between the magnetic gap, so that the unit can work normally. In addition, AIKIRA speakers also provide three sets of switches, which are used to adjust the grounding method. As for how to use it, it depends on the operation in the manual.
is brilliant and more magical at low volume
When I listen to TIDAL AKIRA speakers, the amplifier and CD player are both products of Burmester ( Voice of Berlin ). Among them, the rear stage part is two 909MK5s, which are then bridged into mono mode to drive, with the purpose of giving AKIRA speakers greater power. Burmester's sound style is also very distinct. The pursuit of fast and clean bass and bright mid-high notes is a cool sound characteristic.
is a complete set of Berlin sound equipment with TIDAL AKIRA speakers. The sound characteristics between them are not mutual neutralization, but the enhancement effect produced by superposition. The sound presented generally sounds like me that I can be described as "glorious". Its mid-treble part has high brightness and freshness. Its bass part mainly emphasizes the speed and reaction speed of the mid-treble, rather than the deep and powerful bass extension. The bass part sounds clean, fast and tightened, so its bass power is always on the verge of the point.
If you talk about the TIDAL AKIRA speaker itself, I think it is a speaker with exquisite and bright sound, high clarity in the full frequency, and delicate sound and image lines. I listened to the fifth paragraph of "HIFI Drum King" issued by Japanese GML, which can be said to be able to fully reflect the sound characteristics of TIDAL AKIRA speakers. cymbal sounds Because of this "glorious" characteristic, the metal texture of the instrument will become stronger, the sound image focus will be more vivid, and the fast bass makes the drum sound clean and neat. Similarly, the album "Shiyouqu/String Nocturne" played by Mozart (a ancient music brand under DECCA), is also beautiful in recording, with good sound effects and noble and gorgeous tone orientation. TIDAL AKIRA itself is exquisite and bright, and its vivid orientation further highlights the tone of strings.
But I think the charm of the TIDAL AKIRA speaker is to replay music at low volume. Why do I emphasize "low volume"? It is because whenever I encounter sky-high equipment, I will habitually turn the volume up and listen, and subconsciously I just want to taste their sound effects.For example, when listening to "HIFI Drum King", I could also see the midrange and bass vibrating in my seat, and you can imagine how loud the volume is! But in fact, users rarely turn on the loud sound at home. After all, listening to music loudly is refreshing for a while, and they can't stand it after a long time.
In comparison, after the volume is reduced, the sound clarity and sound image positioning of TIDAL AKIRA do not seem to be greatly affected. The brightness of the sound decreases as the volume decreases, which doesn't sound so exciting, but instead makes it more comfortable to hear. For example, listening to the Paganini Violin Concerto performed by Schelling, I can still hear the separation between the violin and the band, as well as the details of the instruments in the band; listening to the "Bach Cello Sonata" performed by Totrill, the cello can also appear clearly.
This record is a selected album released by Japanese GML company based on the Hong Kong market. The original version is called "Golden Rack Audio Disc". The drummer Zhu Qimeng not only has excellent drum beats, but also has a very good recording effect, but also has high requirements for replay of the audio system. Therefore, the sound effects of the album were briefly introduced.
Piano Bird Records (a Gu Yue brand under DECCA). Mozart's "Shiyouqu/String Nocturne" directed by Hogwood is a record with outstanding recording effect. The tone orientation is noble and gorgeous and the sound effect is good. In addition, Hogwood also recreated the lost second movement for "Shiyouqu", which is not available in other versions of "Shiyouqu". At the same time, the instruments used in this album, especially the violin part, Amati, Stradivarius, Guarneri and other famous pianos are on the list. It is worth collecting
Piano Bird Records (a Gu Music brand under DECCA). Mozart's "Shiyouqu/String Nocturne" performed by Hogwood, directed by Hogwood is a record with outstanding recording effect, with noble and gorgeous tone orientation and good sound effects. In addition, Hogwood also recreated the lost second movement for "Shiyouqu", which is not available in other versions of "Shiyouqu". At the same time, the instruments used in this album, especially the violin part, Amati, Stradivarius, Guarneri and other famous pianos are on the list. It is worth collecting
listen to TIDAL AKIRA uses a full set of Burmester (Voice of Berlin) products. The amplifier part uses two 909MK5 rear-level bridged into mono mode to drive
Summary
TIDAL The AKIRA speaker has gorgeous appearance, exquisite workmanship, and exhausted good materials. It has done a lot of homework for most customers in terms of visual effects and fever elements. In terms of sound replay, the TIDAL AKIRA speaker has a distinct personality, brilliant, clear and clean, and is a delicate and beautiful sound characteristic. If its sound style is what you are pursuing and you have top-notch consumption power, then AKIRA speakers will be suitable. Because in addition to hearing the sound you like, its craftsmanship and appearance can also make you pleasing to the eye, and you can do whatever you want.
For the three linear array bass units on the front panel, the main purpose is to improve the sensitivity of the low frequency part and increase the bass volume. At the same time, the linear array structure is characterized by controlling the vertical diffusion of sound waves. Its vertical beam is close to the height of the bass line array, but it also has a wider horizontal diffusion, which can take care of a wider listening area. But it should be noted that listening to AIKIRA speakers requires a certain distance, and the height of the ear is flush with the midrange, or between the midrange and the bass unit, the sound waves emitted by the speaker unit are better integrated, so that smoother connections and clear sound image positioning can be heard. The five passive radiators on the back actually play a role in further increasing the bass energy.As for this convex bass bass unit, in addition to TIDAL, such as Marten Design, Lumen White, Estelon and other manufacturers with cooperative relationships with Accuton, but most of them use ready-made products, and a few of them use customized products, and TIDAL is one of them. The materials and designs of the two are different. As for the performance difference between the two, I'm afraid only Accuton and TIDAL know this.
AKIRA speakers provide three terminals, namely the positive and negative pole and the ground terminal. I guess the ground terminal should be the metal part of the speaker unit, the frequency divider shell, etc. It was first proposed by Mr. Masazo Kinishi from Japan. It is applied to the TAD speaker, which can lead to static electricity generated by the air friction between the voice coil of the speaker unit between the magnetic gap, so that the unit can work normally. In addition, AIKIRA speakers also provide three sets of switches, which are used to adjust the grounding method. As for how to use it, it depends on the operation in the manual.
is brilliant and more magical at low volume
When I listen to TIDAL AKIRA speakers, the amplifier and CD player are both products of Burmester ( Voice of Berlin ). Among them, the rear stage part is two 909MK5s, which are then bridged into mono mode to drive, with the purpose of giving AKIRA speakers greater power. Burmester's sound style is also very distinct. The pursuit of fast and clean bass and bright mid-high notes is a cool sound characteristic.
is a complete set of Berlin sound equipment with TIDAL AKIRA speakers. The sound characteristics between them are not mutual neutralization, but the enhancement effect produced by superposition. The sound presented generally sounds like me that I can be described as "glorious". Its mid-treble part has high brightness and freshness. Its bass part mainly emphasizes the speed and reaction speed of the mid-treble, rather than the deep and powerful bass extension. The bass part sounds clean, fast and tightened, so its bass power is always on the verge of the point.
If you talk about the TIDAL AKIRA speaker itself, I think it is a speaker with exquisite and bright sound, high clarity in the full frequency, and delicate sound and image lines. I listened to the fifth paragraph of "HIFI Drum King" issued by Japanese GML, which can be said to be able to fully reflect the sound characteristics of TIDAL AKIRA speakers. cymbal sounds Because of this "glorious" characteristic, the metal texture of the instrument will become stronger, the sound image focus will be more vivid, and the fast bass makes the drum sound clean and neat. Similarly, the album "Shiyouqu/String Nocturne" played by Mozart (a ancient music brand under DECCA), is also beautiful in recording, with good sound effects and noble and gorgeous tone orientation. TIDAL AKIRA itself is exquisite and bright, and its vivid orientation further highlights the tone of strings.
But I think the charm of the TIDAL AKIRA speaker is to replay music at low volume. Why do I emphasize "low volume"? It is because whenever I encounter sky-high equipment, I will habitually turn the volume up and listen, and subconsciously I just want to taste their sound effects.For example, when listening to "HIFI Drum King", I could also see the midrange and bass vibrating in my seat, and you can imagine how loud the volume is! But in fact, users rarely turn on the loud sound at home. After all, listening to music loudly is refreshing for a while, and they can't stand it after a long time.
In comparison, after the volume is reduced, the sound clarity and sound image positioning of TIDAL AKIRA do not seem to be greatly affected. The brightness of the sound decreases as the volume decreases, which doesn't sound so exciting, but instead makes it more comfortable to hear. For example, listening to the Paganini Violin Concerto performed by Schelling, I can still hear the separation between the violin and the band, as well as the details of the instruments in the band; listening to the "Bach Cello Sonata" performed by Totrill, the cello can also appear clearly.
This record is a selected album released by Japanese GML company based on the Hong Kong market. The original version is called "Golden Rack Audio Disc". The drummer Zhu Qimeng not only has excellent drum beats, but also has a very good recording effect, but also has high requirements for replay of the audio system. Therefore, the sound effects of the album were briefly introduced.
Piano Bird Records (a Gu Yue brand under DECCA). Mozart's "Shiyouqu/String Nocturne" directed by Hogwood is a record with outstanding recording effect. The tone orientation is noble and gorgeous and the sound effect is good. In addition, Hogwood also recreated the lost second movement for "Shiyouqu", which is not available in other versions of "Shiyouqu". At the same time, the instruments used in this album, especially the violin part, Amati, Stradivarius, Guarneri and other famous pianos are on the list. It is worth collecting
Piano Bird Records (a Gu Music brand under DECCA). Mozart's "Shiyouqu/String Nocturne" performed by Hogwood, directed by Hogwood is a record with outstanding recording effect, with noble and gorgeous tone orientation and good sound effects. In addition, Hogwood also recreated the lost second movement for "Shiyouqu", which is not available in other versions of "Shiyouqu". At the same time, the instruments used in this album, especially the violin part, Amati, Stradivarius, Guarneri and other famous pianos are on the list. It is worth collecting
listen to TIDAL AKIRA uses a full set of Burmester (Voice of Berlin) products. The amplifier part uses two 909MK5 rear-level bridged into mono mode to drive
Summary
TIDAL The AKIRA speaker has gorgeous appearance, exquisite workmanship, and exhausted good materials. It has done a lot of homework for most customers in terms of visual effects and fever elements. In terms of sound replay, the TIDAL AKIRA speaker has a distinct personality, brilliant, clear and clean, and is a delicate and beautiful sound characteristic. If its sound style is what you are pursuing and you have top-notch consumption power, then AKIRA speakers will be suitable. Because in addition to hearing the sound you like, its craftsmanship and appearance can also make you pleasing to the eye, and you can do whatever you want.
