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| Best speakers 2,500 can buy. The Druid has not crossover. The FRD is naturally rolled off on the both ends and the supertweeter is rolled in via a filter network at 12kHz. The FRD gets a direct connection from the amp so the 40Hz - 12kHz range is produced without the signal t... | |
| Best speakers 2,500 can buy. Zu Druids, if you can spend just $300 more. Nothing in the price range - and I mean nothing - offers coherence, resolution, musicality, immediacy and expression while delivering high tonal accuracy. It is friendly to a huge range of amps and your ... | |
| spica and ls3/5a's Yes, I do recall that at the time the Spica was revered for its imaging. I could never get past its serious tonal colorations to choose the speaker over an LS3/5a. To me, in that respect the margin is not small at all. I did not (do not) consider ... | |
| spica and ls3/5a's Unsound,With respect to sound of solid state amps and speaker impedance, I am reporting results, not "common wisdom." Common wisdom tells us a lot of things that just aren't true. Some speaker designers are formulating to 6 ohm nominal loads becau... | |
| spica and ls3/5a's I've owned both in the past, the Spicas never able to dislodge the LS3/5a, however. The Spica appealed to many people because of its greater dynamic range and better bass extension over the BBC monitor. But the Spica could not "disappear" like the... | |
| KT88 single ended amp recommendations please The two best KT88 single ended amps I've heard are:Acoustic Masterpiece M101. This is an Air-Tight design using terrific Tamura transformers. It can be wired as an "SET" in psuedo-triode mode for 5/5w or normally for 8/8w. It is among the half doz... | |
| Anyone heard Zu Druid speakers? Missed this question. Answer is, Druids + Method sub are excellent but I wouldn't peg the combination at 90% of Defintion. The bass extension is only part -- and the smallest part -- of the Definition's improvement over the Druids. The flatter fre... | |
| What is physiclly in size the largest audio power OK, had to poke around for some dimensions. The T-1610 is 12" tall and almost 4" in diameter. By comparison, an 845 is 6-3/4" tall and about 2-1/8" in diameter.Phil | |
| What is physiclly in size the largest audio power There are some much larger transmitting tubes intended for other purposes that have been adapted to audio amplification, but in the normal realm, this has to be a contender for the physically biggest amp tube:http://www.kraudioproducts.com/Kr/Prod... | |
| anyone heard zu definition speakers? I'm happy to help to the Zu guys, if writing here makes a difference. When you have a 30+ years perspective on hifi as I do, you realize how few new designs and products stand out; how few there are that change your agenda as an audiophile; how fe... | |
| Cain & cain abbey vs Zu Druid Abbeys were finalists on my short list of speakers for the room in which I subsequently chose Druids. I bought the Druids blindly after hearing the Abbeys on equipment I don't own and concluding that the whole Fostex approach just doesn't have eno... | |
| Ls 3/5a sound without the price..... Almost nothing emulates an LS3/5a. I bought my first pair in 1976 and used them as main speakers more often then not until 2002. I have four suggestions: 1. Buy a used pair of LS3/5as; 2/ Spendor S3/5 or S3/5se, depending on your preference; Zu To... | |
| anyone heard zu definition speakers? Definitions are absolutely superior to Druids. Broader bandwidth, better power transfer, smoother and more extended top end, better treble dispersion for a broader sweet spot. Bass response flat to 16 Hz if the room is big enough to support that.A... | |
| 300b vs 845 I meant to make it clearer that the Chinese graphite plate 845s, both the A and B, are darker sounding than the vintage NOS, KR and metal plate variants, which are in turn quite different from each other. If you've never heard anything other than ... | |
| anyone heard zu definition speakers? I own both Zu Definitions and Zu Druids on two separate systems, and I am a former Quad owner. I can pretty much answer anything you want to ask about Zu speakers and am happy to. I'll start by saying that the Definition and Druids are the only dy... |