(In contrast, the beryllium tweeter of the CR1 is formed using the more costly vapor-deposition process.) The tweeter is then concentrically inset in a new 3.5″ magnesium midrange. ![]() In the ME1’s case, TAD has engineered a new and smaller version of this design the tweeter is an ultra-light casting of high-rigidity beryllium. Its much smaller footprint will allow it to work well within the tighter confines of more modest listening spaces.Īmong the ME1’s features is its star transducer, the redoubtable CST (Coherent Source Transducer)-the concentric driver that has defined TAD’s Reference and Evolution efforts. Where the CE1 always seemed a little top-heavy and precariously perched on its floor stands, the ME1 represents a speaker of uncommon balance. It’s a bass-reflex configuration that is in many respects the physical spitting image of the CE1, only better proportioned. The ME1 is a three-way, stand-mounted monitor that measures sixteen inches tall. Yet in some ways it could also be its most impressive. The ME1 is the company’s smallest Evolution Series compact to date, and its least expensive as well. ![]() I’ve reviewed both of these fine efforts (Issues 205 and 256, respectively), and now it’s my good fortune to write about TAD’s latest offering. Led by the Reference Series CR1, a beryllium-driver three-way of ravishing sonic quality and physical beauty, the procession continued with the Evolution Series CE1-nearly as formidable in some aspects, but at a more approachable, though still heady price. The TAD ME1 (ME for Micro-Evolution) is the third stand-mounted compact loudspeaker to be rolled out by Japan’s Technical Audio Devices in recent years.
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