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https://pt.audio/2025/10/10/vimberg-tonda-d-addendum-review/

After spending a weekend listening anything from Beethoven’s 7^th symphony (with Ivan Fischer at the podium) all the way to the new Tron Ares OST by Nine Inch Nails, to Kuijken playing The Four Seasons on an obscure cello da spalla instrument, to Marcelle Meyer resurrecting Rameau, I came to the conclusion that my Vimbergs were even better than what I have already raved about.

Thing is, modern speakers evolved hand in hand with modern amplifiers and as watts became easier to come by speaker designs, they morphed into insensitive beasts, hard to tame by single ended triode tube amps. Not the TIDAL Audio and Vimberg designs.

It is not just a matter of sensitivity. The Vimberg Tonda D declares a sensitivity of 90dB/1m, which is neither very high nor very low, and on paper it’s about right and similar to what other manufacturers declare, give or take. It has to do with impedance, port tuning, crossover order, complexity and of course the type of drivers.

I won’t go into further technical details, I trust my ears and the humble GM70 monos make gorgeous music with the Vimberg Tonda D. Mids are lush and the highs are velvety. Voices sound human, strings vibrate and cymbals tickle my senses. The surprising part is that I barely miss anything from the lower registers, and this is comparing 23W to a few hundred. 

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