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Zu Soul Supreme Recap -- Owners, what are your preferred system pairings with them?

I'll save a long backstory, but in short I've got the Zu Soul Supremes and I absolutely love them for what they do, at least in my relatively small (13x15x9) listening room.  I've had them a couple years as a follow-on to previous Zu speakers (Unions and Cubes, which I still own).  Those followed some vintage Altec horns (16 ohm Valencias and 19s)--which I love, but love the Zus more for daily listening.  Sean recommended the Supremes over the Druids at the time for the size of my listening room, although I suspect the Druids would have been as good or better regardless.

My interest is to hear from other Zu Soul Supreme owners...not may posts in this forum from owners that I can find.  I'd prefer to focus this discussion on the Soul Supremes, as there is a lot of great info already on the Druids and Definitions (which I assume are more prevalent in the wild), even though I'm sure have a ton of overlap in system synergy.

So...

What system components are you finding to be great/phenomenal matches to the Soul Supremes, what have you compared them to, and what hasn't worked as well?   Anyone running them with what you consider to be really high-end gear?  I'm super curious to see how far these speakers can go before a speaker upgrade makes way more sense.

Jay
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hifi-buck
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So are you still enjoying your ZU Soul Supreme's?
hifi-buck
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I’m glad to see that my first post on this forum resurrected the Soul Supreme thread. Not a lot of threads out there on these speakers. I’m a big fan of ZU Audio. Have had my Dirty Weekends for nearly 3 years and have powered them with everything for low powered SET amps to high powered SS Monoblock amps that I am presently using. And in my experience, the more power, as long as it’s also quality power, the more they have responded and the better they sound. Straight from the man himself, Sean said that his ZU’s love high power. 
hifi-buck
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So what brought me to this thread was my search for reviews and more info yon this speaker. I just ordered a pair and out down $2000 for them. I just want to know what I will be getting compared to what I’m already getting with the Dirty Weekends? Strictly two channel and no sub. Small room. 12x10 with 8!foot ceilings. Seems like a good fit for that room. 
hifi-buck
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Please help and tell me what to do!!!! LOL
hifi-buck
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So 4 months has past since this, I ended up going with another pair of Dirty Weekends. High gloss red. But.....they went to do final assembly on them last week and noticed a flaw in the finish. So they have to start the finish process over again. Which is now about another month out. So I am again at a crossroads. I can have a pair of Soul Supreme's in about a week. And I keep gravitating that way. I just bought a new Hegel H390 amp for these speakers. Which will be amazing. I am already using it on my current Dirty Weekends. I want slam, I want live music sound, but I also want some refinement and that "audiophile" experience that I have got with my other speakers, which are Quad S-2's. I keep thinking that the Supreme is the way to go. But I do LOVE my current Dirty Weekends. The room size is small, so the Soul Supreme's might be right at home. 12X10 with 8 foot ceilings. They will be positioned about 7" off the side walls and the front baffle of the speaker about 30" from rear wall. No openings, controlled, can shut the door.
hifi-buck
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I will be talking with Gerrit on Monday and will be leaning towards that direction. I figure that if I am going to upgrade from a speaker that I already love, might as well make it something really worth it, instead of buying the same speaker again. I am just amazed how much I love my Dirty Weekends, I am listening to them as I type this and they always put a smile on my face. But I know that I am always going to ask myself, "What if" if I don't go the Soul Supreme route. 
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