![]() I ended up staying half an hour, marveling at the ME-1’s sound - punchy midbass, airy treble, and a midrange as pure as the driven snow. I found a better seat and listened more intently. But listen I did, at first casually, and it wasn’t long before my ears perked up. I sat down more to take a break from walking the halls than to listen to whatever system was playing. When I walked into TAD’s room at High End 2017, I was a bit tired. The ME-1 was no more than a blip on my hi-fi radar - a small blip. After all, the Music Vault - my largish, custom-designed listening room - is acoustically equipped to handle the sound output of such large speakers as Rockport Technologies’ Arrakis and Magico’s Q7. But the first time I saw it, no stand-mounted speaker of small dimensions was going to win a second glance from me. TAD began showing prototypes of the Micro Evolution One (ME-1) at the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show, so I was vaguely familiar with it. ![]() ![]() Instead, I saw the littlest speaker the company makes. I sauntered into the display room of Technical Audio Devices Laboratories (aka TAD) at Munich’s High End in May of this year, hoping to see something big and awesome from the venerable Japanese company - maybe an update of the Reference One Mk.2, their flagship loudspeaker, or some new model of cutting-edge electronics built to impossibly precise standards. ![]()
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