Among the C-600’s many features the manufacturer lists a fully balanced dual-mono design an enclosure with absorption and vibration damping a circuit optimized for highest signal to noise ratio high-quality components excellent functionality and Extreme Link to synchronize several C-600 preamps for a multi-channel analog system. This preamp completes TAD’s top system, the Reference Series, which also consists of the D-600 SACD player and M-600 monaural amplifiers. It was thus the very first C-600 in Europe. I was sent for a review the very unit which had been displayed in Germany. This year’s High End show in Munich was among the first opportunities to experience it. The C-600 preamplifier together with the E1 speakers is the latest offering to be added to TAD’s portfolio in April 2012. Thus began the official international history of the latter. As Robert Harley mentions in his article, such a coaxial speaker system turned out to be something closer to Japan than UK history as that type of design had been patented in the late 70s by Pioneer and TAD. Among the many technical innovations the Model One could boast, one drew special attention – the Coherent Source system, a further development of the Uni-Q with beryllium cones for both tweeter and midrange driver. For TAD Jones designed the Model One from scratch which became the company’s reference speaker and gave them added momentum. Jones is an engineer who previously worked at KEF for many years where he was co-responsible for their greatest success, the coaxial Uni-Q driver system. However we had to wait until the Millenium when a separate company Technical Audio Devices was set up which hired Andrew Jones to run its R&D department. It was that combination of solid funding and brilliant engineering that resulted in a speaker driver made from beryllium. As a result of technical developments it created a lot of materials published by the Audio Engineering Society (see Robert Harley, An Overnight Success 35 Years in the Making, The Abso!ute Sound). That division was called Technical Audio Devices and operated as a completely independent laboratory. But as early as 1975 its parent company Pioneer Electronics had set up a subdivision which was to design high-quality technologically advanced speakers. is a relatively young company founded October 1, 2007. TAD or Technical Audio Devices Laboratories, Inc. Review component retail in Europe: €31.000 Resonance control: Finite Elemente Ceraball under CD player, Audio Revive RAF-48 platform under CD player and preamplifier, Pro Audio Bono PAB SE platform under Leben CS300 XS Stand: Base IV custom under all components Power strip: Acoustic Revive RTP-4eu Ultimate Power cables (all equipment): Acrolink Mexcel 7N-PC9300 Interconnects: CD/preamp Acrolink Mexcel 7N-DA6300, preamp/power amp Acrolink 8N-A2080III Evo Headphones: Sennheiser HD800, AKG K701, Beyerdynamic DT-990 Pro 600Ω vintage, HifiMan HE6 Loudspeakers: Harbeth M40.1 Domestic + Acoustic Revive custom speaker stand Integrated amplifier/headphone amplifier: Leben CS300 XS Custom Preamplifier: Ayon Audio Polaris III Signature with Regenerator power supply Phono preamplifier: RCM Audio Sensor Prelude ICĬartridges: Miyajima Laboratory Shilabe & Kansui EdĬD player: Ancient Audio Lektor Air V-edition All images contained in this review are the property of High Fidelity or TAD. As is customary for our own articles, the writer's signature at review's end shows an e-mail address should you have questions or wish to send feedback. We publish its English translation in a mutual syndication arrangement with publisher Wojciech Pacula. You can also read it in its original Polish version here. This review first appeared in the July 2012 issue of hi-end hifi magazine High Fidelity of Poland.
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