Description
The TIDAL Audio Contriva G3 audio system comprises the following components:
1. TIDAL Audio Contriva G3 loudspeaker in piano lacquer
Technical Specifications
- TIDAL Contriva (G3 – third Generation), dynamic 3-way loudspeaker
- multi chamber cabinet made of TIDAL’s proprietary cabinet material TIRALIT and TIRADUR cabinet material
- 1 x exclusive 30mm Gen3 diamond tweeter with neodymium under-hang motor
- 1 x exclusive 173mm Gen4 black ceramic midrange with neodymium under-hang motor
- 2 x exclusive 220mm carbon-fiber aluminum woofers with neodymium long excursion under-hang motor
- TIDAL uno-pulse crossover with lowest tolerance components, micro phonically and hermetically isolated in separated chamber
- Gen-3 TIDAL isolators with 8 x trigger-bars, made of stainless-steel high gloss polished
- cabinet finish: original TIDAL piano lacquer in midnight black and hand selected veneers in original TIDAL transparent piano lacquer
- nominal power handling: 150 / 300 VA, nominal impedance: 4 Ohm, recommended power amplifier: > 30 watt.
- 2 x 114 Kg weight (without packaging)
- speaker dimensions: 130 cm x 27,5 cm x 48 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
