TAD Laboratories COMPACT REFERENCE ONE TAD-CR1TX

TAD COMPACT REFERENCE ONE TAD-CR1TX

Model No

TAD-CR1TX-BR, TAD-CR1TX-EB

YET ANOTHER CULMINATION OF THE POINT-SOURCE SOUND CONCEPT

For decades, TAD (Technical Audio Devices) has hard earned the considerable respect and trust of the world’s leading artists and studio engineers.

In 2019, we introduced to the consumer market the critically acclaimed TAD Reference One flagship speaker system, the culmination of our point-source sound concept achieved by combining TAD engineers’ wealth of experience and expertise in speaker design with leading-edge speaker technologies to create the ideal audio experience in a home environment.

Now we have reached another milestone with the introduction of the TAD Compact Reference One, which has taken advantage of every element of advanced technologies incorporated into the design of our flagship model.

The TAD Compact Reference One delivers the rich point-source sound with the quality that makes the listeners forget they are listening from a speaker system. Its extraordinarily resonant sound will satisfy even the most discerning audiophile.

TAD COLLABORATES WITH TENDO MOKKO IN CRAFTING THE ENCLOSURE

Tendo Mokko is one of the most prominent manufacturers of luxury furniture in Japan, established in Tendo, Yamagata Prefecture, in 1940. The company has been creating a series of highly acclaimed pieces of furniture, including works with globally renowned designers and architects such as Sori Yanagi and Kenzo Tange, respectively.

Now TAD celebrates collaboration with Tendo Mokko. Their skillful techniques of artisan craftsmanship are incorporated into our SILENT Enclosure for the TAD Compact Reference One, elevating the supreme functional beauty to yet another level.

A SPEAKER SYSTEM DESIGNED TO CONVEY ALL THE NUANCES OF THE SONGWRITER’S CREATIVE INTENTIONS AND THE ARTIST’S PERFORMANCE

CST DRIVER

THE REFINED CST DRIVER ACHIEVES SUPERIOR WIDE-RANGE REPRODUCTION WITH WELL CONTROLLED DIRECTIVITY

The CST (Coherent Source Transducer) Driver is a major step forward in coaxial speaker design that achieves the optimum balance between creating an ideal sound image and creating an ideal sound field by controlling the driver unit’s phase and directivity over a wide frequency range. The design of the midrange cone is based on detailed calculations resulting in the unique shape that produces superior acoustic characteristics and precise control of the directivity of the concentrically mounted tweeter.

This configuration unifies the acoustic center of the tweeter and midrange and reconciles the phase and directional characteristics through the crossover range. The CST Driver enables ultra-wide-range reproduction of 250 Hz to 100 kHz, accompanied by a directivity pattern that neatly dampens without disruption across all bands. The result is extremely clear and stable imaging, a wide frequency response, and natural-sounding music reproduction.

EXCEPTIONALLY TRANSPARENT SOUND PRODUCED BY THE BERYLLIUM DIAPHRAGMS

Diaphragms of the tweeter dome and midrange cone are made of beryllium, the lightest and most rigid of metals. Our proprietary vapor deposition technique refined over several decades gives the metal superior strength and uniformity as well as high internal loss and high-frequency resonance-damping characteristics. The tweeter’s diaphragm shape is derived using an advanced optimization method based on HSDOM (Harmonized Synthetic Diaphragm Optimum Method) computer analysis. It accurately controls differential vibration produced by the diaphragm, providing uniform response to as high as 100 kHz. The large midrange cone features a direct-radiation, vapor-deposition beryllium diaphragm. The resulting sound is astonishingly transparent, direct, and precise across a wide frequency range.

ISO DRIVE TECHNOLOGY UNLOCKS THE FULL POTENTIAL OF THE CST DRIVER

In order to maximize the capability of the CST Driver, we developed the new ISO (isolation) drive technology that involves including a mechanism that blocks vibration produced by the driver unit from entering the enclosure, thus structurally separating the CST Driver from the cabinet. The CST Driver, with its powerful drive capability, is prevented from exciting the enclosure, which reduces the radiation of secondary sound. It also limits the influence of the energy from the powerful bass drivers. Delivering only sound radiated from the CST Driver diaphragm, which is the source of single-point sound, improves resolution to convey accurate detail, allowing, for example, the differences in tone color that vary subtly according to how the performers play or sing to be heard with unmatched clarity.

BASS DRIVER

20 CM (8.0 IN.) WOOFER WITH EXCEPTIONAL STRENGTH PRODUCES RICH BASS WITH GREAT CLARITY

The bass driver has achieved the highest linearity in the performance of its magnetic circuit, diaphragm, and suspension. First, the magnetic circuit features our unique short voice coil OFGMS (Optimized Field Geometry Magnet Structure), which linearizes the magnetic flux density along the 20 mm (0.8 in.) long gap. This circuit stabilizes drive performance from small to large amplitudes, achieving high linearity and producing signal waveforms correctly. Second, the TLCC (Tri-Laminate Composite Cone) aramid diaphragm has a triple-laminated construction that provides near ideal physical properties. It delivers not only rich and clear bass but also low-coloration sound extending through to the midrange. Third, the suspension employs TAD’s signature corrugated surround, which further contributes to exceptional linearity in woofer cone movement.