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| Zu Soul Supreme with Leben CS300xs (or Harbeth XX.X?) I have heard the CS300 with Zu Omens. On acoustic music it was jaw droppingly good, huge sound. Like you I found with rock the Leben would compress and shout if I tried to play it too loud, like over 80db, so IMO you may be hearing the limits of... | |
| Klipsch Heresy iv...Your experience. Fair criticism of the Omen DW's... clarity is not their strong suit. You have to go up the Zu line to get better clarity and resolution. | |
| Anyone else treated poorly by AVA? I understand the OP's frustration but I think this is fairly common. These tiny companies with high demand for their products (Decware, AVA, Zu, etc) don't have the staff to continually update customers on outstanding orders while fielding questi... | |
| Black Ash..... At first blush I would say, yes, black ash is horrible and cheap looking.However... today Part Time Audiophile published a review of the Volti Razz finished in... black ash! I gotta admit they look pretty stunning accented by the tan cloth grill. ... | |
| High Output Preamp for First Watt SIT-3? Good thread. I don't have much to add, other than Charles mentioned Coherent speakers. I am currently running a SIT-2 with Coherents and it is the best amp/speaker pairing I have personally heard. I have the Model 10 (no longer in production), ... | |
| Neil Young calls out Tidal Actually Mr. Young became an American citizen a year ago today. Happy Anniversary, Neil! | |
| Is Modern Jazz an Oxymoron? Go to Bandcamp and there are tons of new jazz artists making killer music. Also realize jazz (like it has always done) has grown to embrace other music such as, but not limited to, hip hop. There is a great scene of what I will call British afro... | |
| Cable Modifications Modify how? I think Zu will re-terminate their cables if you send them in, but I don't know what they charge. | |
| Zu Audio Dirty Weekend Loading Resistors Upgrade Right on, enjoy! Post back with your impressions. | |
| Beyond Boutique Speakers Volti Audio speakers are all made by one guy and he puts his cell phone number on his website. Yet he has a Stereophile review. That's not boutique?I may have to start a thread of "Beyond Beyond Boutique Speakers", where we list manufacturers tha... | |
| "Song Exploder" on Netflix The podcast is great, I will check out the show! | |
| Zu Audio Dirty Weekend Loading Resistors Upgrade The TL:DR version... skip the resistors.Long answer, as someone who has used the resistors and owned DW's but has not used them together... the resistors are for amps that like a flatter impedance curve. I used them with Druid V's. I got the Dru... | |
| Honest question about cartridge vs. turntable performance. This was a pretty neat discussion before veering into belt vs DD. A lot of interesting points made.My own unscientific opinion is that budget carts sound pretty darn good, and like others have pointed out, they depreciate quickly. And I've heard... | |
| SET 45 and their (real) required speaker efficiency Is the 45 SET you are considering also from Triode Lab, and if so have you reached out to Frank Ng at Triode for speaker recommendations? He is very helpful in that regard, he's heard his amps with lots of speakers and knows what his customers ar... | |
| Flexible/Compliant Speaker Cables Duelund DCA12GA hookup wire sounds great, flexible, not expensive.$16/meter, and you'd need 10 meters (2.5m x 4 runs)I use the 16GA speaker wire with some amps and I love it. |