Tikandi loudspeaker system

Tikandi” is an indigenous Australian word meaning “live”. It has been chosen because we believe this new top of the range loudspeaker, processor and amplifier system will, given the appropriate sources, enable you to enjoy live music in your home!

To achieve this level of “liveness” involved the cooperation of two of Australia’s most innovative audio companies, DEQX and Legend Acoustics. Both have a passion for live music and a deep understanding of high fidelity design that comes from long experience and comprehensive knowledge of the physics, engineering, electronics and Digital Signal Processing involved.

The Tikandi system comprises:

1> A stereo pair of newly-designed Legend 3-way loudspeakers in which each high quality driver is individually connected to its own amplifier leading to greater control and speed of response.

2 > DEQX's patented new generation of HDP-3 preamp/correction processor that precisely calculates the compensation required for each loudspeaker driver as well as correcting for non-linearities in your room’s response.
.Thus the Tikandi is designed from the ground up to integrate amplifiers and speakers through the DEQX HDP3 to produce unparalleled fidelity to music as it was recorded.

Each loudspeaker consists of two modules allowing each cabinet to be tailored to their respective drivers and reduce their interaction. The modules are a truncated pyramid with non-parallel walls to diminish standing waves within the cabinets. This configuration – aided by the extremely solid construction—further reduces the transmission of inter-cabinet vibrations. What’s more, each driver has been carefully chosen from the world’s best.

The lower base module has two 10-inch bass drivers which have almost 1-inch of excursion capability providing bass down to a low 20 Hz. The drivers are located in opposing faces of the cabinet in a bipolar configuration. This arrangement essentially cancels cabinet vibration while the heavily-braced structure provides an extremely stable support for the upper module.

The top module houses the super low-distortion midrange and tweeter drivers. The midrange cone is made from an anodized Al/Mg alloy diaphragm that is extraordinarily light yet exceptionally strong and therefore able to achieve vanishingly low distortion across its full operating range. The tweeter's ultra-strong ceramic and aluminium substrate composite dome achieves equally low distortion.


The final key to Tikandi's unprecedented performance is DEQX's new HDP3 that provides preamp, 3-way active linear-phase crossovers, speaker correction for each driver, room correction and user defined EQ presets. The HDP3 eliminates errors in phase, timing and frequency-response— the Achilles heel of all conventional loudspeaker designs and the factors that prevent the ultimat in acoustic reality.

By providing steep linear-phase crossovers, the HDP3 virtually eliminates crossover distortion and excessive midrange and tweeter driver excursion, allowing higher and less congested output levels. Simultaneously, the inevitable measured errors of each driver are precisely compensated by DEQX's patented, low-latency, inverse FIR filtering, producing almost unprecedented accuracy of plus/minus 0.5dB compared to the typical high-end speaker performance of plus/minus 3dB accuracy.

The Tikandi's HDP3 preamp also allows you to measure and correct your room’s inevitable acoustic problems and bass frequency resonance that cause tonal imbalances. Uncorrected, these resonances result in unnatural bass tonal balance and mask psycho-acoustically our ability to hear detail across the full spectrum.

In addition, the HDP3's remote control provides post-DAC analogue volume control of all output channels, eliminating the need for a pre-amplifier. All that’s needed is a source of similar high quality to complete the system.

Notwithstanding its ground breaking technology producing unprecedented accuracy and low distortion, the Tikandis have been designed by people obsessed with musical enjoyment. After listening to a wide range of music, we believe that the name “Tikandi” is entirely appropriate— these speakers arouse the emotional response of being at a “live” performance.

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