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| Anyone listen to Zu Audio's Definition Mk3? Marc,You'll need to spend some time on that range of auditions. I missed mention in your earlier posts that your Hovland power amp is the SS Radia and not the EL34 push-pull amp. If you haven't spent serious time with a high-grade SET amp, it woul... | |
| Anyone listen to Zu Audio's Definition Mk3? It's hard to argue against any Audion amp to be used with Zu. The Silver Night 300B monoblock power amps are available either as PSET or P-P. 18/18w is fine with Def4. The issue is the bottom end. Look, I have the Golden Dream PSET 300B Audion top... | |
| Best Pre/Amp or Integrated for Zu Essence My first suggestion is, buy whatever Audion tube amp you can find up to your spending limit. The synergy between Audion's fast, expressive sound and Zu, including Audion's tonal completeness and their ability to civilize the ribbon supertweeter ma... | |
| What 6922 tube will improve bass definition? Just solve the problem once and for all with a Seimens or Valvo CCa. Telefunken CCa are great but not the last word in bass definition. The various NOS European/Brit e88cc, ecc88s are a good step back from the expense of the CCa.Phil | |
| Zu Essence vs. Druid Mk4/08 +1 on Superfly for reasons stated. | |
| Anyone listen to Zu Audio's Definition Mk3? Glory,I first heard Tenor amps, pre-Zu and then when I first got Def1.5s, early in the last decade, both their 15w and 75w amps. I have a friend who cycles through high-end gear at whirlybird frequency, including the existing Tenor stereo amp. I h... | |
| Anyone listen to Zu Audio's Definition Mk3? Marc,In most rooms, when you get new Def4s, you should start by running the sub Volume control at max (10) and as the driver breaks in, you'll likely back off from that over time. If 10 is too much just dial in what's right. Then starting at about... | |
| Anyone listen to Zu Audio's Definition Mk3? Spirit,I answered this question in a previous post. The five sub controls are interactive primarily insofar as the outcomes of anyone one control's settings acoustically may (likely will) influence your preferences on some of the others. If you ch... | |
| Anyone listen to Zu Audio's Definition Mk3? Glory,>>Musical to you may not be musical to me but there is no way with the system you have built around the Def4 you can get better results than I have with my Def2.<<You're welcome to that opinion. If you have a Def2 system, it's go... | |
| Anyone listen to Zu Audio's Definition Mk3? Agear,A system is always holistic, else it's not a system. I don't think anyone -- and certainly I don't -- changes or adds compenents without adjusting the context.When I listened to ASR in my system, I used all-copper cables first; reverted to s... | |
| Anyone listen to Zu Audio's Definition Mk3? agear,Migrating from Audionote to Atmasphere to Tenor to ASR isn't a direction I'd take, and I've heard all of it. So I don't know how anyone would judge that or any other system as " the most musically convincing system to date." Well anyway not ... | |
| Anyone listen to Zu Audio's Definition Mk3? Spirit,You're right, the Black Hole is effective if the problem you have is the one it solves. Since you already own one, you conclude it's still valuable to your system when you move to Def4. And at $1250 it is an affordable antidote to a vexing ... | |
| Anyone listen to Zu Audio's Definition Mk3? Agear,You wrote "Zus are not impervious to associated gear." That's certainly correct and if anything I wrote was inferred by others to mean otherwise, I certainly didn't intend it. I've lost count of all the cables types I've heard on my Zu syste... | |
| Anyone listen to Zu Audio's Definition Mk3? Some interesting assertions here:>>SET amps are good for what they do but there are other amps that from top to bottom will out run them. <<Bring me one. There are a LOT of SET amp choices but they aren't all equally good. You don't ha... | |
| Anyone listen to Zu Audio's Definition Mk3? No doubt the Spatial Black Hole has its benefits, and I know it can mitigate acoustic anomalies in very troublesome rooms, which it sounds like you, Spirit, have had to cope with. That was a good suggestion Sean offered.But before the wider audien... |