TIDAL Audio
Piano G3 Audio System

1. TIDAL Audio Piano G3 Loudspeakers in piano lacquer

Technical specifications

• TIDAL Piano G3 (third generation model)
• Multi-chamber cabinet made from TIDAL’s own cabinet material TIRADUR
• Constraint layer damping (CLD) double front for even less vibration/resonance
• 1x exclusive 30 mm (1.2″) diamond tweeter Gen2 TBD-30, mechanically decoupled from the cabinet
• 2x exclusive 170 mm (7″) black ceramic BCC mid-woofer Gen2 MW-FG-170
• Passive crossover with ultra-low tolerances, exclusive use of customised pure copper capacitors, metal film resistors, silver-carbon resistors, air core inductors, bass inductor with extremely low resistance
• TIDAL Uno pulse crossover, microphonic and hermetically isolated in separate chamber
• Total weight of the passive crossover: 13 kg
• Excellent bass reproduction
• Low-earth silver terminals for perfect contact
• TIDAL Varioterminal for three different set-up variants: pure 2-way crossover (for very small rooms), linear 2.5-way crossover (for medium-sized rooms), amplified 2.5-way crossover (for larger rooms or more bass in medium-sized rooms)
• Gen-2 TIDAL isolators made of stainless steel
• 8x trigger bars made of solid stainless steel, highly polished
• Cabinet finish: Original TIDAL piano lacquer in Midnight Black.
• Cabinet surface: Finest hand-selected veneers in TIDAL’s original transparent piano lacquer.
• ATA flight case for safe transport
• Nominal load capacity: 150 / 300 VA
• Nominal impedance: 4 Ohm
• Recommended amplifier power: > 30 watts
• Lowest impedance drop: 3.2 Ohm.
• Speaker dimensions (H x W x D): 116 cm x 24.5 cm x 39.5 cm
• Dimensions with vario feet (from base to top): Height 121 cm
• Weight of the speaker without packaging: 2x 70 kg
• Shipping weight with packaging: 2x 106 kg
• Shipping dimensions (L x W x H): 2x flight case, 134 cm x 39 cm x 51 cm

2. TIDAL Audio Contros Streamer, DAC and preamplifier

Technical specifications

• TIDAL Contros: volume controlled digital-to-music converter with streaming unit and 4 digital inputs
• Pure discrete designed 32-bit non-oversampling 8xR2R ladder DAC without pre-ringing and post-ringing
• Lossless volume control: the signal output level is directly adjusted inside the ladder DAC – via a galvanically separated potentiometer from the outside (motor driven to be remote controlled as well)
• Proprietary ASRT² Analog Signal Remediation Technology: Field Programmable Gate Array for most precise timing correlation between left and right channel incl. timing correction and audio signal remediation processing (target-interpolation TIDAL algorithm)
• Every function-module in the TIDAL Contros has its own voltage supply, separated for each channel, left and right, such as for the amplification, the DAC, the PCM-unit, the streaming module and other parts. All together 22 ultra low noise voltage supplies
• 3x low noise ring-core transformers with foil-shielding to avoid interference current between primary/analogue/digital-audio
• Overall capacity >300.000µF with 180 ultra-fast charging organic capacitors
• Copper-silver cable with 3 layers constrained damping shielding (power input to transformers – the only cabling inside)
• 3x SPDIF in: coaxial RCA, AES XLR, optical
• 1x proprietary TIDAL-link input interface with high-speed low voltage differential signal driver/receiver: for TIDAL Arkas streamer and TIDAL devices to come in the near future
• 0,01% tolerance precision resistors, ultralow-ESR organic capacitors
• Femto clock ultra-low noise oscillator (-169 dB)
• Fully discrete Class-A output amplifier, balanced output concept without any sound-changing inverted signal generation (like with transformer outputs)
• Music data streaming input: LAN ethernet (1000 BASE-T), USB storage/hard disk (single partition FAT32, NTFS, exFAT, EXT2/3)
• Multi clock system for utmost precision in timing, MQA decoding, DSD over PCM support
• UPnP AV protocol with audio streaming extension, gapless playback
• Supported formats: DSF (DSD), DFF (DSD), DoP (DSD), FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF, MQA, MP3, AAC (M4A)
• Native support for Tidal music streaming, Qobuz music streaming, MQA, Apple AirPlay, TuneIn internet radio, Spotify Connect, Tidal Connect music streaming
• Dimensions (width x height x length): 44cm x 13cm x 39cm
• Weight: 16,6 kg

3. TIDAL Audio Intra stereo power amplifier

Technical specifications

• dual-stereo power amplifier with 4 amplification channels for three different modes.
• stereo mode single-amping: each power supply powers one channel only:
  – 2x 340 W at 8 ohms
  – 2x 670 W at 4 ohms
• dual stereo mode bi-amping: each power supply powers two channels:
  – 4x 290 W at 8 ohms
  – 4x 540 W at 4 ohms
• dual mono mode for LF amplification: BTL mode per stereo module for low frequency applications, such as for the TIDAL LPX technology to drive TIDAL loudspeakers bass-active:
  – 2x 1.180 W at 8 ohms
  – 2x 1.900 W at 4 ohms
• fully discrete front-end amplifier
• completely DC coupled signal path from input to output stage (no capacitor in the whole signal path).
• 4x XLR audio input
• TIDAL remote power on/off input
• performance protection: temperature, over-current, DC and HF
• dimensions (width x height x depth): 44 cm x 13 cm x 39 cm
• weight (without packaging): 12 kg

Options:

• Matching audio cables and power strip on request