whoopycat
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| Headphones as Models for Speakers? Interesting Read from Herb Reichert - Opinions Please The other truly difficult part of Herb's ideal is the "direct connective-ness". Headphones can connect directly to your ears. Speakers have to interact with the room. | |
| In need high-efficency speakers I'm a Zu Omen DW owner and love 'em, but in your case I would ignore all of our blather and just buy them both. Zu gives you 60 days in home with free returns. Crutchfield sells Heresys and also gives you 60 days and only charges $10 for returns... | |
| The Absolute Sound vs Stereophile Stereophile all day, every day. At least Art and Herb and Fremer have good (diverse) taste in music. Sorry folks but if you want to grow the hobby, the mags need to migrate away from reviewers who play nothing but classical and vocal, and gear d... | |
| Zu Druid & Definition Roundup Hoping @213cobra weighs in with his thoughts on Druid VI. His system with Druid VI is featured in monoandstereo.com. Phil, you have an awesome system. I don't know why but it kind of tickles me that you are converting your turntable signal to d... | |
| HAVE ALL SALES STOPPED ON AUDIOGON ??? Agreed. I put a piece up recently and did not get a whiff of interest, not even lowball offers, even after dropping the price 25%. I also look at a lot of gear for sale I'd love to buy but don't have room for, and it just sits there unsold. May... | |
| DO CABLES REALLY MATTER? Nah, analogous reasoning would be comparing audio to baking a cake and debating the use of different brands of sugar. And I didn't use any metaphors. | |
| DO CABLES REALLY MATTER? I'm not going to read through all 11 pages of this thread, but I did have a random thought and this seemed like the best spot for it...Suppose you had two speaker designers at your disposal, and you gave them both an identical set of a woofer and ... | |
| Anyone receive their Zu Druid VIs yet? Zu is running a good sale on Druid V right now. So tempting. I've got both pairs of my Zus nicely dialed in right now, so I'm hesitant to mess with it, but I've lusted for a pair of Druids for a long time and that's a good deal... | |
| Zu Soul Supreme Recap -- Owners, what are your preferred system pairings with them? How's the Taboo with no preamp, did you try that? | |
| "Bookshelf" speakers designed to be placed near the wall behind them? FYI, the Zu Cubes have the concentric tweeters, not the Omen Bookshelf. There are a few folks on here who run Cubes if you search the forum.I haven't heard Omen bookshelf but I do have Omen DW's which I love. I would imagine the bookshelf version... | |
| Anyone receive their Zu Druid VIs yet? Zu does not use off-the-shelf Eminence drivers, they are built to Zu's spec and then Zu does additional assembly. Lots of speaker companies do this. DeVore has SEAS drivers built to spec. To me it's like the choice of a chip in a DAC, it become... | |
| Anyone receive their Zu Druid VIs yet? Nice... keep the updates coming. Right now you are carrying the torch on this forum for Druid VI owner impressions! I've been tempted to get Druids. I love my DefHeads (top half of Def IV's) to death, and I also enjoy cranking my Omen DW's. I ... | |
| We give up perspective to avoid tone controls It is possible to find an amp/speaker combo that is tonally perfect (to the owner), but it is difficult and potentially expensive. I have two systems, one with no controls (and I have no desire to add them), and one with tone controls (and I woul... | |
| Contemplating DEVORE SPEAKERS (and others)....LONG audition report of many speakers Prof, thanks for the writeup, that was a fantastic read. Your experience probably echoes a lot of audiophiles, especially mine... auditioning a lot of gear to find out it's not better than what you already have! LOLI had the O/93's for a few mon... | |
| Decware and SET Low Power Tube Amps with Hi Efficency Speakers I would echo seikosha. Not every room and hi-eff speaker combo will behave the same. Short answer to your question is that fleawatt SET can be magical. I run a $140 Chinese 3 watt SET with my Zus in my bedroom and couldn't be happier with that ... |