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| Anyone listen to Zu Audio's Definition Mk3? Morganc,I don't have Def3 (I do have Def4 and I had Def2). What you really need given the hearing sensitivity you described, is Def4 with the Radian compression supertweeter. But if that's out of reach, you can expect rock at high SPLs to sound le... | |
| Most forgiving high end speaker 10k-20k? Zu Definition 4. Despite having even higher resolution than Definition 2, it makes even 1980s CDs more listenable than any speaker I've listened to so far. Yet exceptional recordings will be revealed for all they are worth. I didn't expect the boo... | |
| Anyone listen to Zu Audio's Definition Mk3? >>The burning question is whether the Def 4s fit into this category? There is an inconsistent witness here. Telling people to drop 13K on a speaker and not to sweat the rest is a good sales pitch. I have no doubt they are excellent speakers.... | |
| Anyone listen to Zu Audio's Definition Mk3? Well, Gary, it was an entanglement. That's not perjorative; it's just descriptive. And isn't every disagreement in an interest like hifi a triviality? relative to the real problems of this world?Well, for me it is. Don't take it personally, which ... | |
| Anyone listen to Zu Audio's Definition Mk3? >>Audion Black Shadows (though had a prob with the amp grounding---so were uncharacteristically noisy)<<To update this: what we thought was a serious ground loop we didnt have the time or means to resolve was instead a failing bridge r... | |
| Anyone listen to Zu Audio's Definition Mk3? Marc,I haven't heard any one TT drive type make all others moot, in the way that SET + Zu has been transformative for me. And I know of no one who has directly compared everything credible. I have, btw, heard the Palmer but not comparatively. It's... | |
| Anyone listen to Zu Audio's Definition Mk3? >>Do you use power conditioning on your Def 4 plate amps as well as the front end electronics?<<I simply power my Def4 subwoofer amps directly from the wall. I haven't heard any advantage to power conditioning there, and my balanced po... | |
| Anyone listen to Zu Audio's Definition Mk3? Agear,The less said about Gary's choices of expression in the prior inconsequential imbroglio the better. But there is a difference in civility of discussion between me declining to endorse Gary's amplification and cable choices (which is what he ... | |
| Anyone listen to Zu Audio's Definition Mk3? Charles,I know about the Takatsuki 300B, but I haven't heard them. Construction details appear beyond reproach. I have Emission Labs, some older Vaic, KR Audio, Sophia mesh plates and some Chinese solid plate 300B tubes. When I got my Audion Golde... | |
| Anyone listen to Zu Audio's Definition Mk3? Marc,>>...as a direct drive advocate yourself, together with an ever increasing band of followers, do you feel that direct drive (or idler drive) if implemented correctly will always trump belt drive, or as belt drive advocates argue that it... | |
| Anyone listen to Zu Audio's Definition Mk3? >>I gather you've moved away from belt drive<<This made me chuckle. Circa 1976 I owned at once a Linn Sondek, Luxman PD444 and a Transcriptor Glass Skeleton. I've been using the Luxman PD441 and 444 turntables for 36 years. In the mean... | |
| Anyone listen to Zu Audio's Definition Mk3? I do use an Audion Premier preamp on one of my systems. It is an earlier generation, with full remote control (volume plus switching). The sound of Audion preamps is in the same class as their power amps. The Klimo is in one system as a consequenc... | |
| 24 feet DIN to XLR phono cable for Graham Phantom? I have three turntables in two systems. One of the turntables is off the main gear table in one of the systems and requires a 20' stereo phono cable from the step-up transformer to the phono preamp. Zu Mission cable proved up to the task. It's qui... | |
| EL34 upgrade Mesa Boogie, the guitar amplifier company, has a cache of NOS Siemens EL34 that are offered as matched pairs on their web site store, directly, $150/pr. These are re-labled Mesa STR-450 tubes, after surviving stringent testing on Mesa's proprietar... | |
| Anyone listen to Zu Audio's Definition Mk3? Glory,I live in an area with fairly dirty power. I've investigated a lot of power conditioning and of course, all choices sound different and none so far have been completely positive in their effects. But I haven't by any means auditioned a compr... |