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| Zu Druids upgraded Vs Essence Bonesetter,First, I'm glad my prior posts helped you with a buying decision, and you ended up happy. Next, if you found my prior notes on Druids and Zu actionable, then know that if you love Druids you will love Presence. It is the Druid voicing a... | |
| Zu Druids upgraded Vs Essence What people here are referring to as Zu's "Soul" speaker is a prototype. It's not yet a product, not yet priced and not yet documented in product collateral as everything about it is subject to change along the way to what tech companies call "FCS... | |
| Zu Druids upgraded Vs Essence The supertweeter on the new prototype speaker is dynamic.Random notes from the thread:The ribbon supertweeter in Essence is not "dead." Quite the contrary. It's very much alive and present, and Zu has done a better job of seamlessly mating a ribbo... | |
| Zu Druids upgraded Vs Essence I had an extended comparative listen to Essence and my Druid Mk4-08, as well as my Definition 2s, in my home. As background pertinent to this particular question of whether a Druid 4-08 owner should upgrade to Essence, I'll add that I started in Z... | |
| Zu or Harbeth Both the Harbeths and either Zu model are excellent speakers. You have more than enough power to drive any of the three speakers well, so you're not practically limited. I've heard the Harbeths, know the importer and own Zu, as a matter of backgro... | |
| Zu Essence + Sub vs Zu Definition MK2? I have Definition 2, Druid Mk 4.08 and Credenza in my systems and have heard Essence in my house for direct comparison.Essence is in many respects a "Super Druid," with extended bass, better horizontal dispersion and a more linear, extended top en... | |
| Luxman 3045 mb The Luxman 3045B is outstanding. Aside from the usual periodic maintenance (re-caps, resistors, etc.) the circuit is sound. I used these for a couple of decades with a stash of the original high power triode tube.With this amp, you're pretty much ... | |
| Speakers to build a $6500 system around Let's save you some money and solve your problem.You have a good CD player and a perfectly fine amp. You need speakers that can uncork the potential of both and drive sufficient dynamics and volume into a larger room on the power you have.I see th... | |
| the smoothest sounding speaker You have many options, but two speakers that are remarkable for their smoothness are Sonus Faber Cremona, and Zu Druid. The Cremona is a voiced speaker that trades some ultimate resolution for musicality, and the Druid is an intimately holistic re... | |
| Crossover-less Speakers I migrated from two systems using crossover-based dynamic speakers to crossoverless and won't be going back. Since that transition, the reduced tonal, spatial and transient coherence, along with the truncated dynamics proximate to the crossover fr... | |
| Do true audiophiles own Mcintosh gear I've taken a pretty extensive tour of tube amplification over the past 35 years, and am currently running three SET systems with tube pre-amplification. None if this gear is McIntosh, but not for lack of audiophile quality from that brand. That co... | |
| Amp/Int Amp for SF Auditor Spkrs The Auditors, despite their 90db/w/m efficiency rating, really don't come into their own sonically with modest power amps. While the Lavardin amps are excellent, they just do not have enough muscle to drive any Cremona speaker to its real potentia... | |
| Another Zu Thread Kirk,Floor material is unimportant. On Druids, you just have to set the floor-to-baseplate gap correctly. On Definitions, no issue here at all. Definitions also have a vertical dispersion pattern that minimizes floor and ceiling effects.You will l... | |
| Can you help me transition to 2 channel audio? Yes, you can have convincing HT and satisfying music sound. Just go 2 channel. Start with a pair of Zu Definition speakers. You'll get convincing spatial coverage and rock-solid anchoring of dialog to the actors on screen. You'll also get all the ... | |
| Zu Definition 1.5 vs Merlin VSM-MXe This notion that Definitions are somehow not suitable for classical music and are instead a "rock and blues" speaker is unfounded. The speaker is remarkably neutral in tonal balance, can lay out a highly-scalable soundstage macro to micro, has sen... |