PAD HiFi NEWS

The 2023 SoundStage! Network Awards for Outstanding Achievements and Products of the Year

For over two decades, we’ve presented our annual awards for Products of the Year at around this time of year. The 2023 award recipients have been culled from the product reviews written over the past year on SoundStage! Hi-Fi

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Is the TAD CE1TX Audiophile Bookshelf Speaker Really Worth It?

Jiles McCoy’s review of the CE1TX is a testament to two things: These speakers can effortlessly handle any genre you throw at it – and audiophile music doesn’t have to be dull! Thank you, Jiles!

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TAD Compact Evolution One TX Loudspeaker

Tokyo-based Technical Audio Devices Laboratories (a.k.a. TAD) is a company I’ve long admired. My first exposure to the brand occurred over a decade ago at CES in Las Vegas

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Will Jennings from eCoustics–TAD CE1TX Loudspeakers: Review

"Reference quality resolution, timbre, clarity, detail, and the most accurate imaging we’ve ever heard from a stand-mounted loudspeaker. The TAD CE1TX are very special loudspeakers."

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Steve Guttenburg from The Audiophiliac on YouTube reviews the TAD CE1TX.

""A great speaker…definitely worth checking out.""

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Stereophile, June 2023 (print)

"These TADs are the finest example of speaker engineering I've ever encountered. Absolutely Class A."

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Jay's Audio Lab

This is incredible, guys. I still don't believe this is a bookshelf. Impossible to believe this is a bookshelf....it defies the laws of physics....It blows my mind what I'm hearing...

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Jay's Audio Lab

Jay from Jay's Audio Lab interviews Shinji Tarutani, TAD CEO, and Dave Malekpour, President of PAD HiFi, TAD's exclusive North American distributor 

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Soundstage! Network

TAD has had an impressive history, but it hasn’t had a strong presence in the North American market since the brand was launched. That’s a little bit surprising, given the exceedingly high quality of its products, and...

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Home Theater & HiFi

There are maybe a handful of loudspeakers that I would (momentarily) consider performing acts that would surely land me either in prison or divorce court in order to possess them.

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Positive Feedback

The TAD room at (Florida International Audio Show) was a smashing success, and in no small part due to the superb selection of Patricia Barber's music that Jim and Ulrike brought.

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Stereophile

In short: magnificence. Beautifully layered textures. Realistic grand pianos (which, other than voices, are the most difficult instruments for hifi systems to get right). Also, bass reproduction that's like a sumo wrestler: fat but nimble.

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TAD Evolution One TX Loudspeaker – “Where Will They Go?”

The TAD Evolution One TX is an exemplary performer all-around and, thanks to the care that went into its design, one that will work well in a wide range of real-world listening environments.

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Dave Malekpour takes TAD to North America

Pro Audio Design (PAD) is a Boston-based group of audio distribution companies which has been appointed the exclusive distributor of Japanese loudspeaker brand TAD Laboratories for the US and Canada.

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TAD Evolution Two Review: Great-looking speakers with a small footprint

“The Evolution Two floor standing speakers by TAD is a winner... Are they highly recommended? You bet!”

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Made in Japan: TAD Labs partners Tendo Mokko for $89,000 artisan audio loudspeaker

“This is audiophile Hi-Fi dressed as high-end furniture, and we love it.”

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TAD ME1 STAND-MOUNT SPEAKER REVIEW

“Speakers that exude quality in their build and excellence in their ability to reproduce clean, accurate sound.”

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Review TAD Evolution 2 floorstanding speaker – competition killer

“What an incredibly beautiful speaker TAD has with the Evolution 2. This is potentially a competition killer.”

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