Anyone receive their Zu Druid VIs yet?

Garett says my pair is being shipped this afternoon.  With luck I will have a pair in hand by the end of next week and can do an initial out-of-box sound comparison to my well-trodden Soul Supremes.  I’m moving in about 6 weeks so this will be a good comparison of the VI’s in a smaller room for now (something I was hoping to do before I move as to hear the differences in the rooms, all else constant...my new space is about 3x the size of my current listening room).

Sorry if this is off-topic but I'm real curious to know what amps do you folks use with your Druids. The 101dB sensitivity along with a 16 ohm (10 ohm min) load must pose a matching challenge with most popular brand amps, particularly SS design, in the market. I'm looking at the Omens as a replacement for my home-made single driver speakers currently paired with a Sophia Electric 10wpc class A integrated.

There’s a very good (and long) thread on the topic if you search this forum...it will be hours of reading, but thoroughly informative.  Search something like “Zu Druid Round-up” maybe?  Forget the exact title...

From memory many liked your Sophia with them...I would certainly try that first.  My current Soul Supremes have the same drivers and roughly the same specs as the Druid 5s.  I’m very successfully using Audion Golden Dream monos (parallel 300Bs), Thoress 845s monos (845s, obviously), and a Melody 845 integrated.  All sound fantastic but different due to the tube topology, as you would expect.  I bought all 3 based on that thread, I think.  I ran a First Watt SIT-2 for about 6 months...the only SS amp I really liked with them, but ultimately never loved it, and sold it a month ago after sitting on it for a couple of years.  If solid state is your preference, there’s a new First Watt out that I might try over the SIT if you can demo it...from my reading on it.

I’m also very keen to try the new Linear Tube Audio Ultralinear if I can...I have their really low powered MZ2 and even at its really low power it sounds fantastic as an integrated with my Soul Supremes.

The big thread is “Zu Druid & Definition Roundup”