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

I have had my Soul Supremes about a year now.  One thing I have been disappointed with is that the speakers are not as dynamic as I had hoped.  I have not played with the floor gap til today - just put the speakers down when I received them - looking today it seems the gap was pretty minimal.  Maybe 3 mm.  Doubled the gap today so about 6 mm and amazed and how different these speakers sound.  There is a new lightness, sparkle and punch to the music.- should have played with the gap long ago!.  Heavy speakers to move around but play with the gap you will be surprised at how different just a little change makes.

@ladavid I played around with the gap quite a bit with the DW so I already had a pretty good idea where I wanted it when I upgraded to SS. Another surprising improvement was when I went to rubber feet on a platen. I don’t know if it was the decoupling or raising them a few inches off the floor. The gap with the feet is a little high for my taste, but that’s nothing a little cardboard couldn’t fix.

Cat - thanks for telling me about your experience - would be curious how big your gap is - always read too large a gap and your bass gets muddy, even disappears.

I have some Gaia footers that I have used on other speakers - yesterday I had set out to install these on the Supremes.  I have 100 year old wood floors so speakers are a little wobbly on the wood floors - knew the Gaia's wouldn't give me the recommended gap between speakers and floor but thought it might solve the wobble.  Even though there are three post options the Gaia's didn't fit on the Supremes so resorted to playing with gap and tweaking til I got a better foundation on the wood floors.  Still amazed this morning at how different the speakers sound with a 6 mm gap vs 3 mm.  Small change.  What are other Zu owners doing with feet and the gap on their speakers?

I know this thread is mostly about amplifiers so here is what I am using.

Right now have an LTA Ultralinear integrated playing with the Supremes. Great amp but until yesterday I thought it was bass and dynamics challenged.  Think I am re-evaluating that.

Also have nice combo of hot rodded Amp Camp monos and Don Sachs preamp.  Better dynamics but maybe not as much detail.  Plan to swap this combo in the new sounding Supremes in next day or so- curious as I thought dynamics were pretty good before tweaking the gap.

My wife smiles at me and sure she is thinking I have too much time on my hands...

I agree that the feet by themselves leave way too much gap, about 20mm (13/16”). I put cardboard shims between the floor and the bottom of the speaker to reduce the gap. Zu has a template in their DIY section, but it isn’t difficult to figure it out on your own. The gap under mine is about 8mm, but sometimes I second guess myself and use 2 shims instead of 3, opening the gap up to 12mm at least for a little bit. 

@cat_doorman could you share a picture of your shims. I’ve always found this concept confusing and I’ve never actually seen what they look like. 
 

thanks