Tidal looks great, we heard the flagship at the CES 2011 but found the sound a little too small (YG's flagship ANAT 3 professional played more open, had a better and bigger soundstage, very precise, less compressed in the mid range - unclear about max spl behaviour but very impressive) which might have something to do that the Tidal is using in essence a massive bass in the top and bottom module but fails to create the kind of open window you would expect from a six digit speaker in the critical midrange. Our favorites of the show were the TAD reference one speakers as demonstrated by Grammy winning engineer Bill Schnee which blew us away in terms of combining accuracy, soundstage, sheer unlimited dynamics and overall musicality. The surprise was the rather inexpensive (in ultra highend terms) CR1 which I would every Tidal customer to listen to - the sound you get for $37,000 is fantastic. No other speaker was able to reproduce drums this realistic while being equally realistic with the critical material piano and voices. We would prefer that speaker any day over the $150k tidal reference.
Keep also an eye on raidho's latest flagship speaker which we will audition in Munich later this year. The ones we heard at the CES were a tad too bright, it's difficult to evaluate if it was the speaeker or the amps and cables.
