Source: Corporate website, Last Accessed: 2024/06/10

Consonus' Tide audio system includes a pair of 4-way loudspeakers, two quad-channel power amplifiers an audio quality DSP engine and custom-made proprietary speaker cables. For customers who are in love with their existing favorite amplifier (tube or solid-state) and want to use it with Tide, the company offers the optional Tide XO external passive crossover. The Tide XO allows bypassing standard DSP-based crossover and relevant channels of Tide amplifiers to use the customer’s amplifier instead, for powering the planar ribbon section from 220 Hz and up.
The loudspeaker of the system comprises off a sealed design subwoofer with 13-inch high performance driver (Submerge) and an open baffle speaker (Breeze) mounted on top via vibration isolating feet.
Tide Breeze has a 1.5-inch thick trapezoidal composite baffle which carries three drivers in dipole configuration: one 9.5-inch electrodynamic woofer and two planar ribbon drivers – a 10-inch midrange and a 3-inch tweeter.
Consonus' patent-pending design features acoustic summation of omnidirectional subwoofer and the open back dipole woofer. According to the information published, this creates a very special acoustic system with cardioid directivity pattern in theoverlapping range. Such design provides smooth transition and integration between bass and midrange and high frequencies with dipole directivity which has never been achieved before, the company says, while the cardioid directivity helps to effectively tackle room modes in the mid-bass spectrum, resulting in a refined in-room response and exceptionally accurate bass fidelity.
Consonus says that Tide’s design solves challenges historically related to dipole speakers based on thin film technology, whether planar or electrostatic. This includes overcoming limited frequency and dynamic range, mitigating irregular and beaming dispersion, and, finally, achieving seamless integration with the electrodynamic bass section.

For more information: https://www.consonusaudio.com/

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