At $12,495/pair, just under one-third the price of the CR1, the ME1 will still put a significant dent in your savings. Now we have the new Micro Evolution One, or ME1, the first affordable speaker from TADthough affordable only in comparison to the company's other models.
But it was less than a shock, given that speakers with pro-audio genes in their DNA are expected to be pricey.Ī string of other new TAD models followed, including the Compact Reference CR1, at $45,000/pair plus $4000 for the matching standsstill the costliest consumer stand-mounted speaker we know of.1 All of these designs came from TAD Labs' main development center in Japan, led by chief engineer Toru Nagatani and the pen of content/surpassing-expectations-pioneers-andrew-jones">Andrew Jones (footnote 1), who alternated between creating TAD models for those who could casually write a five-figure check, and surprisingly good and affordable Pioneer speakers for the rest of us. But 16 years ago, when they introduced a speaker designed for the home marketthe Reference Oneits five-figure price raised eyebrows in a market not yet saturated with speakers selling for more than $50,000/pair.
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TAD has long been a highly respected name in pro audio, and for decades sold exclusively to that market.
Founded in 1975 as a subsidiary of Pioneer to build loudspeakers for the professional market, TAD remains part of that corporation, even after the recent sale of Pioneer's home-audio division to Onkyo. Notwithstanding the twists and turns of Japanese corporate culture, the status of Technical Audio Devices Laboratories, Inc.
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