Efficient speaker: Zu, Tekton, Volti, Klipsch, Fleetwood?


We’re moving and I’m looking for a high-efficiency, high impedance speaker that can fill a very large “great room” with smooth, open, detailed sound, both for serious listening and casual background music. I currently have Devore Super 9s, but those will be going in a separate dedicated listening room. I thought about getting another pair of Devores (maybe the O/93) for the great room because I love this brand, but I’m interested in other possibilities The new speakers will be on either side of a 6-foot TV console, so they’ll need to sound good fairly close to the wall behind them. And they will need to have a reasonably good WAF. They will be played mainly at low-moderate sound levels and our tastes include rock, classical, world music and “spa” type relaxation stuff.

Anyone who is familiar with any of the following candidates, please feel free to sound off. As you can see, price ranges are all over the place:

Zu Soul Supreme

Tekton Lore

Volti Razz

Klipsch Forte IV

Fleetwood Deville

Others?

128x128ladok

I visited Greg Roberts of Volti and heard the Razz. They are very, very good and the build quality surpasses that of Klipsch by a wide margin.

@ladok 

ive written somewhat pro/cons here - another fleetwood deville thread.  The pairing, at the time, was with a gryphon diablo 120…but even before acquiring the speakers, i agonized that i would have to flip my entire system over again (merry go around) for a different type of speaker.  I’m of the house of k.i.s.s. mentality, but i contradict myself with two subs which any non-full ranger needs in my room.

 

I’ve gone back and forth between Devore and Verity since 2003. Verity seems to have what "I" am looking for in the Otello at 93db. They go down to a real solid 30hz. The presence range is where I feel like some like, Devore, others prefer Verity.

I find Devore’s to be over hyped in the presence region. There is something artificial there to my ears- a loading of the room at a frequency that is annoying. I’m not saying my ears are right- they are for me. Verity sounds a bit more refined and perhaps can be less exciting with some material, but for me better with equal detail for the wide range of music I listen to.

This is just my experience with the Verity PE, Leonore, Otello and some time with the Anniversary and Amadis- They are very dimensional. Devore- 12 years with Nines, 6 months with O/93, time with S9, O96 only at friends. The slim Devore speakers IMO are more dimensional than the wall of sound O’s, which are beautifully organized and more powerful sounding in their own way. It comes down to how we hear IMO, and it’s as different as how we see art.