david_ten
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| ARC VSi60 vs Ayon Spirit II/III Gary,Any updates. Have you auditioned the Ayon Spirit II/III?I have a Spirit II and can highly recommend it. I've also had my eyes on the ARC vsi60 since I'm a bit of an Audio Research guy as well. But have the opposite problem - have not been abl... | |
| Zu Soul Superfly After a week in triode mode (40wpc) I just switched to pentode (60wpc) with the Ayon Spirit II.Music comes across fuller and with more body, and the bass seems to be more controlled. Had the name Soul not been in the mix, I would have started by s... | |
| Zu Soul Superfly Re. "I fell in love with the black trim and have decided to go for maple with black."Mike,Looking forward to seeing your photographs of the maple/black finish. Are you going with a matte or gloss maple finish?Venicelake,What type of brown finish?-... | |
| Zu Soul Owners' Impressions: Standard / Superfly Re. Additional Photographs of the Superfly.I will try to take some more photographs, including of the speaker rear, if I get some time tomorrow.If anyone has some suggestions on how to get additional photos posted, please let me know. Otherwise, I... | |
| Zu Soul Owners' Impressions: Standard / Superfly Re. "What do you have the speakers on?"Hi Venicelake,They are on unassembled TAOC shelves. I found using the frame with the shelf insert was more stable on the wood flooring than just using the shelf insert on its on.I did not try the Superfly dir... | |
| Zu Soul Owners' Impressions: Standard / Superfly Initial Performance Impressions (cont.): as Center ChannelHave rotated one of the Superfly speakers as a center within the home theater system. Three movies only, so intial impressions are very limited. Of note, Casablanca, the BluRay remaster, is... | |
| Zu Soul Owners' Impressions: Standard / Superfly Questions to help with the ongoing evaluation?Feel free to post specific questions. Your questions and thoughts and perspectives and corrections on speaker evaluation and review will definitely be a major assist in helping me with the evaluation o... | |
| Zu Soul Owners' Impressions: Standard / Superfly Initial Perfomance Impressions (continued):Sensitive to, I would say responsive to, speaker cable changes. Started with Zu Audio Wax cables. Then rotated in a pair of PNF standard cables. Now have Audio Art SC-5 SEs in system.This, for me, is a st... | |
| Zu Soul Superfly Hi Mike,I think it is smart to make the investment in a finish that works for you. The percentage seems large, but is off of a small base amount. So much less expensive than working a decorating budget for a room around a pair of speakers.What fin... | |
| Zu Soul Owners' Impressions: Standard / Superfly Photos added to give those interested a feel for the "look" of the cosmic carbon finish at different times during daylight hours. Some photos are with a flash assist which helps contrast the "look."Posted at Audiogon under: Community/Virtual Syste... | |
| Zu Soul Superfly The thread has posted and is titled: Zu Soul Owners' Impressions: Standard / Superflyand is listed at Audiogon under: Community/Audio Reviews/Speakers | |
| Zu Soul Owners' Impressions: Standard / Superfly Initial Performance Impressions (continued):I have been listening to the speakers driven by the Triode mode (40wpc), off the 8 Ohm taps, of the Ayon Spirit II.My experience is remarkably similar to what Phil (213Cobra) has posted.- the speakers ar... | |
| Zu Soul Superfly I have a suggestion regarding Zu Soul threads.I recently spent a decent (read really significant) amount of time reading through all 6 pages of 285 posts and would like to make a recommendation that we subdivide the Zu Soul discussions into some p... |