I heard these today. No way I thought they were $180k. I heard much better sounding speakers for alot less today.

That they have that for years. It is a smart system. There is a lot of advantages like the big side panel surface is stiffen up by the bolted port "cover"/Plate.

TAD is so unobtanium. I hope the new distributor can make something happen this go round.

TAD sounds analytical

in 90 years speakers haven't changed : a voice coil , a diaphragm that moves and vibrates , some resistors , caps and inductors in the crossover and binding posts . The charlatans that make high end Audio will con you that they have reinvented the wheel. Hats off 2 TAD though , in this case you get 4 slabs of aluminium that cost $USD10 each so you can show off to your mates . Admittedly the chamfer would have taken 1 hour to mill on a precoded CNC machine .

Closed midrange?

$34K Yikes ...Keep printing more dollars

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I very much doubt that narrow port aperture would not suffer from port noise, distortion or resonances especially at the higher SPL's,

I will say one thing beyond the listening experience, is that TAD make some nice looking speakers. I don't know who is the design team for some of the high end speaker brands, but they generally just look weird and stupid.Not TAD, really classy speakers. However, it kills me they are listening to some LoFi jazz volume is on "2", instead of rocking out on some Tool or Pink Floyd.

Ridiculous prices…sorry