Never boomy or bloated, it was consistently tight and well defineduntil it gave up the ghost. (In my setup, any right-channel speaker is handicapped by the absence of a wall to the right of it the left went slightly lower.) Listening to the warble tones on Stereophile's first Test CD (Stereophile STPH002-2) with both speakers playing, I heard just-audible output at 40Hz.įig.2 TAD Micro Evolution One, right speaker, averaged in-room response at listening seat.ĭepending on the instruments involved, the TAD's bass was often more than adequate. My in-room measurements did show useful response into the mid-to-50Hz region (figs.1 & 2). While larger than some stand-mounts, it's still a small speaker, and despite its unique bass loading it didn't dig particularly deep in the low end. If the TAD had a weakness, it was one you might guess from looking at it. Nor was I disappointed by the ME1s' excellent soundstaging, which excelled in both depth and width when the recording cooperated. My in-room measurements (footnote 2) did show a peak just above 150Hzwhich is either the upper bass or the lower midrange, depending on your definitionbut I heard no evidence of it. Instrumental timbres were convincingly reproduced, as were the voices of a wide range of singers, well known and obscure, such as Holly Cole, Norah Jones, Cyndee Peters, Sophie Zelmani, Sinne Eeg (the last two first heard on The DALI CD Vol.3, a sampler demo disc from Danish loudspeaker maker DALI), Muddy Waters, Leo Kottke, Leonard Cohen, the King's Singers, and many others. In my months of living with the ME1s, I can't recall a single instance of obvious midrange problems with otherwise good recordings.
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