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| Zu Druid MK IVs vs. Essences >>shows that the Zu Druid is a Paul Voight type design<<It isn't. In Druid there is no interior taper and no progressivity in managing the rear wave. Also, the driver is placed at the top of the tube, which is not the usual Voight appr... | |
| Zu Druid MK IVs vs. Essences >>The floor excuse just doesn't cut it.<<If you don't understand how Zu's proprietary acoustic impedance model works, and how their full range driver is affected by it, then your assessment of the "floor excuse" is invalid. This isn't ... | |
| Zu Druid MK IVs vs. Essences >>Is that all? Those measurements suggest way more issues than that...<<Druid, at then $3600, was not as linear as the later $11,000 Definition, Zu's second speaker. But then no one expected it to be. It has a somewhat warmer overall t... | |
| Zu Druid MK IVs vs. Essences >>You can't seriously expect these speakers to be accurate.<<Yes, you can. Look, it's simple: Druid's design *requires* a floor immediately beneath the speaker for it to operate correctly. Changing the floor gap by millimeters alters b... | |
| Zu Druid MK IVs vs. Essences I own Druid Mk 4-08 in one of my Zu-based systems, and directly A/B'd Essence with them in my room.I've written before here that I consider Essence the least-Zu speaker. It was a successful speaker for Zu in part because it has some characterisitc... | |
| Thoughts on current EL-34 tubes Dan,Mesa sells more affordable Russian and Chinese tubes. But if you look on their web site you'll see a specific description of STR450 being limited quantity NOS Seimens, and they are, but those tubes are NOT stock in any Mesa amp.Phil | |
| Thoughts on current EL-34 tubes If you ever hear true NOS Siemens or Telefunken, or Mullard EL34s, or for that matter NOS GE 6CA7s, you'll understand how woefully disappointing are the current faux "Tung-Sol", "Mullard" and various other iterations of this tube coming out of Rus... | |
| Favorite 300B: Sophia vs KR I suppose the notion implied in my initial reply here, but left unsaid in a direct sense, should be expressed unequivocably:The differences between power supply capacitors in an amplifier have, in my long experience making this change in push-pull... | |
| Favorite 300B: Sophia vs KR Maxmad,I can say that I would never recommend matching Sophia mesh (really, perforated) plate 300Bs with Cary amps. That's doubling down on the same basic sonic aberration. If someone likes that combination, one can't argue with that, but it would... | |
| Favorite 300B: Sophia vs KR Which tube is better for you really depends upon the amp itself, and the extent to which you need specific voicing to compensate a sonic anomaly elsewhere in the system, or for tuning to your preferences. I'll go further in saying that even a give... | |
| 9-in arm for SPUs with easy VTA ? Yup, no problem with the Meister Silver in my Victor 7082. I run it a bit under 4g but can go to 4g or beyond, no problem. Stock internal wiring is fine if the arm has been protected from the elements. I'm not obsessive about internal tonearm wiri... | |
| 9-in arm for SPUs with easy VTA ? Look for a NOS or good used Victor UA-7045. they show up here and on auction sites occasionally, usually from sellers in Australia, Hong Kong or Japan. Watch for a fatigued rubber coupler where the counterweight stem meets the main arm. This and t... | |
| Can any preamps for $2-3k touch Auregies-L? Gopher,I am not an admirer of Shindo gear. So it comes as no surprise that I think there are many better preamp alternatives to Shindo. However, I will say that the Shindo preamps are stronger contenders for one's attention than the power amps, ov... | |
| best subwoofer for stirling LS3/5A >>A Vandersteen is faster as it High Passes, cleans up the hump, unloads the main amp...the Rels do not Hi pass...<<Not fast enough for me. I still hear the dynamic disparity. Yeah, a Vandersteen is a pretty good sub for all the other ... | |
| best subwoofer for stirling LS3/5A The best subwoofer for any LS3/5A is none.The tuned-in bass hump is one complicating factor. The other is the B110's (or equivalent in newer form) transient speed. Not even an REL sounds fast enough to keep up. Subwoofers are mostly poor dynamic m... |