Zu Druid IV - the real deal?

Audiofeil...

I think that Newbees post was somewhat tongue-in-cheek...at least that's what I got out of it.

How many billions is our national deficit up to now Bartok?

and now...back to your regularly scheduled programming on....

the ZU channel

Audiofeil, Tough place for a newbee to seek advise. Ask a reasonable question and you'll get 10 answers, two of which might happen to be right. When the stars are all alighned the right ones will be well phrased and intelligently presented so the questioner will have his answer. If they are not well phrased or intelligently presented then the questioner will disregard them and any of the other wrong answers similarly presented by others.

What I fear for those seeking to solve problems are well phrased, intelligently presented, thoughtfully considered answers, coming from folks who present themselves as being experienced and knowlegable, which happen to be just plain wrong.

I think Bartockfan's posts present no such problem for any reader.

Warren you are right you don't need me at all but there is a consensus re the speakers that keeps the group cohesive and reassuring to each other. Why interfere?
All Zu issues aside, I think there is a definite break in period for many elements in audio. In the case of amps, caps do dissapate their charge and so does everything else that has them. With out your crossover you miss one part but the flexing of a speakers cones and surrounds does change them IMHO.
So all the low frequencys are driven into the tweeter Um! I didn't think--- in fact a premier speaker builder and master repair person Mr. Bill Legall of Millerspkr, has told me in person that he was annoyed with himself mixing up his external crossover and was certain that the emits on his IRS Vs would have suffered (its not a Zu but they are pretty good speakers)that it is simply not a good idea for the poor tweeter, could you tell me how those frequencies are prevented from getting there? There is no obvious way that these frequencies aren't seen by the tweeter, of course they can't reproduce them but they may be trying, just not a tweeters role in life I guess. BTW the opposite is ok you can subject a woofer to high frequencies but it does no harm apparently Just Curious-

hey - let's talk about me for a while!

i've only got about $1500 at the moment to drop on a tube amp. remember, this is my second system we're talking about here, and i simply don't want to drop a ton of $ into it right now.

front runners are the ASL "orchid" - a 2A3 integrated amp (i would just use the pre-ins, and utilize this as a power amp) or the cary / AES super amp (KT88's and about 25 watts). i am happy to listen to any options you may suggest.

actually, there is one other amp i have always liked - the ARC VS55. KT88's again, and about 55 watts of power.

anyone got an opinion? i'll bet you do...

So ZU is the new kip on the bloack with massive marketing push/$'s and is a better speaker than the Danes who have been researching to achieve the Excel line, for over 40+ yrs.
Go for it.
I'm thinking Tyler has 2-3 yrs to go before his speakers are known for the value they are.
Go for it dude.