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TCA-M Active Loudspeaker
Sound by Design®- combines science, engineering, Danish functional design and craftsmanship to deliver unparalleled appeal to the auditory, visceral and visual senses.
Our Philosophy
An Unparalleled Audible Experience
At Treble Clef Audio® we focus on reproducing music just as it was meant to be heard - a commitment that requires extensive research and precise engineering.
Breaking with convention our loudspeakers are box and baffle free to produce natural sound without coloration and the best possible listening experience even outside the room.
The True Character of Bass
Our patented Folded Dipole Air Velocity Transducer Bass System is free of vibration and resonances and controls how bass energy is dispersed into the room. An optimised front port and rear ports in each bass cup radiate in opposite phase in an asymmetrical pattern that reduces unwanted room interaction.
Despite its slender visual signature, the TCA-M reaches the deepest tones of a pipe organ with authority and clarity, while maintaining the precise time resolution that allows the true character of bass to emerge.
As an active loudspeaker, the TCA-M manages the entire signal path as a fully integrated and time coherent system. Powerful built-in amplifiers drive each channel directly, connecting seamlessly to both analogue and digital music sources to ensure the highest level of accuracy and consistency.
"The TCA‑Ms went deeper than any speakers I’ve had in that room - As a result, Treble Clef Audio’s claim that the TCA‑M can produce bass right to the bottom of the audioband (20Hz) in a room is credible. This is also proof that active speakers can bend the rules in ways passive speakers simply can’t, particularly in the bass."
The TCA-M midrange and tweeter are mounted in a truly baffle less configuration that allows the drivers to radiate freely. Their sound dispersion and the resulting room reflections behave much like the way acoustic instruments and voices naturally radiate in space.
The bass, midrange and treble systems are physically shaped and electro-acoustically optimised for their respective frequency ranges and integrate as a coherent point source, creating a wide and perfectly balanced blend of direct and reflected sound similar to how we experience natural sound sources in rooms.
By maintaining this natural power response and avoiding colouration from the loudspeaker’s own mechanical structures, the TCA-M preserves tonal integrity, spatial precision and timbral truth. Voices and instruments present with natural scale and clarity, allowing the loudspeaker to recreate the openness and immediacy of live acoustic sound.
Experience the Immersive TCA-M Loudspeaker
Book a personal listening session and experience the TCA-M Active Loudspeakers for yourself at our Headquarter North of Copenhagen.
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Purposefully Box and Baffle-less
Some of the most emotionally powerful aspects of music stem from the firm and detailed presence of deep tones. Instruments such as the double bass and pipe organ, as well as many forms of electronic music, rely on this foundation.
Conventionally, producing the deepest tones requires large box-type loudspeakers to generate adequate bass levels. Unfortunately, the larger the enclosure, the harder it becomes to prevent vibration and resonant frequencies being transmitted into the room through the cabinet surfaces. This unintended added sound introduces audible colouration that obscures the true character of the bass.
A loudspeaker that seeks to contain half of the sound energy inside a box will disperse the other half equally in all directions into the room, creating unwanted and often prominent room interaction. Resonance modes and standing waves build up a steady-state sound pressure that masks the subtle pressure gradients that we would otherwise hear from the original instrument played in the same space.
Box designs also typically place the midrange and tweeter on a front baffle. Baffle size limits sound dispersion at higher frequencies, narrowing the listening window where the sound is optimal and often resulting in a narrow one person sweet spot. The edges of the baffle can introduce spurious sound artefacts that draw subconscious attention to the loudspeaker, collapsing the illusion of a three dimensional soundstage and preventing instruments and voices from appearing as if they are in the room.
Treble Clef Audio® loudspeakers unleash sound rather than contain it within a box. This approach revives the natural scale, clarity and spatial freedom of recorded music, restoring the expansive ambience of performances for an unparalleled audible, visceral and visual experience in your listening room and beyond.
Patented Acoustic Platform
The TCA-M patented vibration and resonance cancelling air velocity transducer bass system achieves an exceptionally low bass extension. It reproduces even the deepest organ pipe or piano note with undistorted clarity, authenticity and authority.
The TCA-M Active Loudspeaker is the first in a series of Treble Clef Audio® products inheriting and extending on our patented acoustic platform and Sound by Design® principles.
Danish Functional Design
Sound by Design® is our patented platform that consciously sculpt our loudspeakers to optimally support acoustic function at every bend of its slender visual signature.
Deeply rooted in the Danish Modern tradition of function and form, our loudspeakers are exquisitely crafted and carefully assembled in Denmark to your personal interior styling choices. Far from conventional, but close to perfection.
"It breathes life into recordings, creates an immersive organic soundstage and makes instruments sound like they're physically present in the room."
