Warren, I'm hoping to buy Definitions soon without selling both my kids. Right now I have Druids which, if not for the Defs, I would say are the best speaker available under $10K.
I too am surprised that these speakers haven't caused much more of a stir. Zu has found something that leaves the vaunted bastions of speaker design deep in the dust.
I have only heard the Defs once when I visited the factory but they left a great impression in my mind. The Druids do it all and I bought them because I showed up at the factory without enough resources to purchase Defs. Once I started using the Druids I discovered that I no longer needed the 250 watts I had on hand. A change of electronics to a smallish tubed integrated put more cash in my pocket and allowed me to play as loud as I ever had and permitted me to enjoy tubes without baking the drapes with filament heat.
The Druids are as full range as most anything available under the super speaker category and indeed provide deeper and tighter bass than several class A speaker selections in Stereophile. Couple that with extremely fast, transparent, effortless midrange and you've got much more than your $2800 worth. Problem is though, like everyone else, I want the Defs, the only speaker with better resolution than my Druids. Can't help it anymore -- all my symptoms are raging -- got to get the $9000 speakers and then the $3000 amp and then, and then, and then.......
How much are a couple of teenage boys worth?