Experience the pinnacle of audio sophistication with the universally celebrated, compact counterpart to the illustrious TIDAL La Assoluta. Designed and manufactured in Germany for those who seek unrivalled quality in a more understated form, the Tidal Akira high-end loudspeaker features an intricately reinforced enclosure made from 42mm-thick panels of TIDAL’s exclusive TIRALIT Ultra material. This unique composition, meticulously engineered with 13 layers of glass-hard and damping MDF and HDF, is fused under immense pressure with a layer-melting resin, delivering exceptional acoustic performance.
Description
The TIDAL Audio Akira audio system comprises the following components:
1. TIDAL Audio Akira Loudspeakers in piano lacquer
Technical specifications
- multi chamber cabinet made out of TIDAL’s proprietary cabinet material TIRALIT Ultra.
- 1 x 30 mm (1,2″) 1 carat pure diamond tweeter TAD-30-EX (an exclusive ACCUTON TIDAL project)
- 1 x 127 mm (5″) 13 carat pure diamond midrange-woofer TAD-MW (an exclusive ACCUTON TIDAL project)
- 3 x 190 mm (7.5″) long excursion woofer TAS-190W-EX (an exclusive ACCUTON TIDAL project), semi-pointsource crossover-control
- 5 x 190 mm (7.5″) long excursion radiator TAS-190PR-EX (an exclusive ACCUTON TIDAL project)
- TIDAL UNOPULSE passive crossover: TIDAL proprietary design to reproduce signals with an excellent step response and linear frequency response
- network with ultra low tolerance components, exclusive use of costum tailored DUELUND-copper-capacitors (silver/copper), metalfilm-resistors, silver-carbon resistors, silver air-core-inductors, ultra low resistance bass-inductor
- passive crossover is microphonic and hermetically isolated in a separated chamber, total weight of the passive crossover construction: 20 Kg / 44 lbs.
- pure silver binding posts for perfect contact, isolated massive aluminum knobs on fiberglass isolation core
- ground connection binding post
- special 5-part TIDAL stainless steel isolators
- 8 x trigger bars out of massive stainless steel, 32 Kg (70 lbs.) per speaker, high gloss hand-polished
- serial cabinet finish: original TIDAL piano lacquer in midnight black
- optional cabinet finishes: finest hand selected veneers in TIDAL’s original transparent piano lacquer.
- other finishes: on request
- free option: polished stainless steel side panel with AKIRA engraving
- the TIDAL Akira is being delivered in 2 x ATA-flightcase for the most safest transport
- nominal power handling: 400 / 800 VA
- nominal impedance: 4 Ohm
- recommended amplifier power: > 30 watt. Very easy impedance load, no impedance drop below 4 ohm
- speaker dimensions: 140 cm x 29 cm x 55 cm / 55″ high x 11.5″ wide x 22″ deep
- dimensions with vario feet (from ground to top): 148 cm high / 58″ high
- speaker weight without flight cases: 2 x 158 Kg / 2 x 348 lbs.
- shipping weight with flight cases (transport weight): 2 x 182 Kg / 2 x 401 lbs.
- shipping dimensions: 2 flightcases, each flight case is 162 cm length x 42 cm width x 71 cm height / 64″ length x 16.5″ width x 28″ height
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 for Tidal Akira audio system
Additional information
| Surface Akira: | Midnight Black, Mahagoni, Ebony-Macasssar, Cloud-Macassar, Rosenholz |
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