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| Zu Druid & Definition Roundup You don't see the judgment and sectarianism in statements like "those like us in the Zu camp really get the overall fidelity of music in a much more organic form... than the Wilson, Magico, YG owners (who are) into spot-lit frequency bands..."?Lik... | |
| Zu Druid & Definition Roundup btw, here is the impedance plot for the Druid V:www.6moons.com/audioreviews/zu20/plot1_big.pngAs you'll see, the impedance swing magnitude below 150Hz is in excess of 30 ohms (from about 15 to 50) quite similar to the typical saddle response for a... | |
| Zu Druid & Definition Roundup A 50wpc transistor amp will deliver 25 watts or less into the 16-ohm Druid V. That's far from irrational. And I didn't claim that's what it took to 'wake them up'. What I did say is that particularly the low end gets wirier. Someone listening to a... | |
| Is Rethm Maarga enough for my room - 24'x15.6'x9'? Converted to meters your room is ca. 8 x 5 with 3m ceilings. Mine is 12 x 5.5 with slightly lower ceilings and the Maarga was fully capable of filling that space. The speaker is capable of low tight bass but due to its loading will never give the ... | |
| Thoughts on the First Watt SIT Amps As I explained in the review, you can get better than SET performance from the SIT if you precede it with a single-stage DHT preamp. Those are rare critters but I listed a few models from Coincident, Jeffrey Jackson, Trafomatic and Wavelength. Now... | |
| Yamamoto YDA 01 DAC I passed on my Yamamoto to Joel Chevassus on staff so I don't know how the YDA01 would stack up to the current crop of DACs I've had through.What I do know is that Joel compared his Yammy to the fully discrete French R/2R DAC by Vince Brient. Vinc... | |
| Yamamoto YDA 01 DAC I didn't realize my email to Charles' inquiry would end up here but why not. It remains my understanding that the chips Cees is using (good for 24/176.4 streams) remain unidentified. In my exchanges with him he stressed that to his knowledge this ... | |
| What amp are you using with your Zu Essences? FirstWatt J2, M2 and F5 are terrific as are my 25wpc EL84 class A push/pull monos. My 8wpc Yamamoto A-09S or Woo Model 5 work very well too (both 300B) but I personally prefer the 25-watt transistor amps for their better low-level resolution, grip... | |
| Zu Soul Superfly I know. My point was, an increase from $2600 to $3500 or 35% up isn't insignificant and a further sign that I was approached prematurely. The current direct-sales model does not explain why foreign pricing outside the US would be another $1000 mor... | |
| Zu Soul Superfly Using common sense, my prior exposure and current ownership of the Essence, I would predict a return to the Zu house sound,i.e. less concessions to a modern 'commercial' sound as the ribbon tweeter in the Essence was supposed to do. To match the r... | |
| Zu Soul Superfly Actually, the reason I cancelled the review is that the preview which went live when Zu first solicited the review was live for far too many months. By the time an actual review pair was finally supposed to ship in October plus the time it would t... | |
| Audio Consulting on fire at Munich High-End Show Actually, that doesn't quite seem correct. We're talking about battery-powered electronics so it's not an amp that would have caught fire but rather, a battery charger for it. Why could a battery charger have caught fire? As my show report mention... | |
| Audio Consulting on fire at Munich High-End Show Are you sure what the cause of this fire was? When I contacted show management about it for my show report, the fire department had not yet determined the cause of the fire. The above links give no answers either.This is merely to insure you're no... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century To be clear, just because I happen to share Mick's personal preference for the Auricaps now that I have compared them to the VCaps doesn't mean (nor should it be inferred to mean) that those who prefer the VCaps are off their rocker -:)Nor would M... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century It's clearly a matter of taste. I can see how what I like about the AuriCaps, someone else might relate to as fuzzier.I think Mick started to use VCaps because customers asked him to. I didn't like the change and asked him what he thought. After h... |