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Home Review TAD Evolution 2 floorstanding speaker – competition killer

Review TAD Evolution 2 floorstanding speaker – competition killer

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Pros

  • Plays very easily
  • Layered
  • Complete
  • Balanced

Cons

  • No 'sexy' look

Price: € 14250 per paar

Build quality
Controllability
Sound
Price

Measurements and conclusion

Contents

Not entirely surprisingly, the TAD measures incredibly well. The response is particularly straight and measures in-room simply superb. Realize that we have no anechoic room. We measure the speaker as much as possible free standing and apply a window to filter things out. The measurement at 3 meters at the listening position is unfiltered. And even there the response is particularly good. The low peak can be damped with placement and change of seating position: it is room effect.

Distortion is low and nicely even. Below 200 Hz is not reliable enough, so forget that. We see a small – noticeable – peak at 150 Hz; probably the reflex port. We can say that the TAD Evolution 2 stays below -55 dB: 0.18%. That’s just top notch.

Conclusion

What an incredibly beautiful speaker TAD has with the Evolution 2. This is potentially a competition killer. Seriously. This plays so incredibly easy, layered, insightful and big without being contrived or unsettled; unique. If we had the Alpha Ultimate Award, it would have been handed out. Don't deprive yourself of it if you're looking for a speaker in this class.
Type test
Single Test
Speaker class
Floor standing speaker
Speaker type
Dynamic
Speaker system
Bass reflex
Signal control
Passive
Frequency range
30 Hz - 60.000 Hz
Crossover
2,5-way
Efficiency
87 dB
Impedance
6 Ohm
Dimensions
  • Width: 32 cm
  • Depth: 40 cm
  • Height: 111 cm
Weight speaker
32 Kg
Measurements
Impulse - 3ms - 1 meter recht
Impulse - 3ms - 1 meter recht
Vervorming - raw - 1 meter - recht
Vervorming - raw - 1 meter - recht
Distortion - simultanious - 15ms - 1 meter recht
Distortion - simultanious - 15ms - 1 meter recht
Distortion - simultanious - perceptual 15ms - 1 meter recht
Distortion - simultanious - perceptual 15ms - 1 meter recht
Distortion - simultanious - 15ms - 3 meter - of axis
Distortion - simultanious - 15ms - 3 meter - of axis
Distortion - simultanious - 15ms - 1 meter of axis
Distortion - simultanious - 15ms - 1 meter of axis
Respons - 3 meters - couch - off axis
Respons - 3 meters - couch - off axis
Response - 1 meter - off axis - 30ms
Response - 1 meter - off axis - 30ms
Response - 1 meter - 30ms
Response - 1 meter - 30ms
Response - 1 meter - 3ms
Response - 1 meter - 3ms

Winkels met TAD

Hennesweg 20
6035 AD Ospel, NL

6 COMMENTS

  1. I’m looking for speakers and have more or less decided on Wilson Sasha 2, but before I commit I’m I the process of having my last look around and TAD speakers keep coming up hence Alpha audio. Question is the only time I’ve heard TAD was about 5 years ago and i found the tweeter a wee bit to bright for my taste. Any idea how modern TAD tweeters sound compared to Wilson’s latest silk dome tweeter??