Why do TIDAL loudspeakers as a standard come in black only?
One important fact to bear in mind: TIDAL-black is not just black ash or any similarly uninspiring finish. At TIDAL, black stands for the noblest of all finishes: genuine black piano lacquer. We take pride in being the first manufacturer, worldwide, to have offered all our speakers with this finish serially. To us, piano lacquer documents elegance, timelessness and value, both optic and haptic. We trust you will not have seen that many grand pianos in trendy aluminum or rustic beech. Neither have we, for a reason. And that is precisely why TIDAL and black piano lacquer are inseparable. Now that we have broached the topic, there are huge variations in what has been called piano lacquer. What is labeled piano lacquer by some manufacturers would not stand the test to serve as undercoat at TIDAL. Look at the saturation of “blackness”, the undistorted reflections and the optical depth of the images in a TIDAL speaker: you are looking in a perfect black mirror. Moreover, the lacquer coating
