Zu Soul Superfly

Zanon,

That is interesting. I really like the F1 a lot. It replaced a pair of tricked out Don Garber Fi 2a3 monoblocks on my Abbys. With SETs I always find myself worrying about tube life and wasting precious NOS tubes on background music. I get plenty of PRaT and fun factor with the First Watt and actually use my rig a thousand times more now than with tubes.

Part of the attraction to this particular speaker for me was the idea that I could swap it in for my Abbys and not really have to juggle anything else. I'm extremely satisfied with most of my components with the only part in question being my Well Tempered Reference (possibly a little too laid back for me).

I don't really want to get back on the gear-go-round especially in this climate, but as more Superfly users come into the picture, if someone has a particularly special experience with something reasonably priced, I might be tempted...

Mahughes,

I updated my virtual system to include some pictures of the Souls. I know you were interested in seeing non-professional, normal lighting, in peoples actual home pics.

My listening room doubles as my living room. I wish I had a dedicated space, but its getting the job done.

Gopher,

Keep writing your experiences with the Soul Superfly, it is building the anticipation over here in the UK. Keep holding myself back from contacting their UK agent to see if they have arrived yet.
Mahughes has got first dem, so will be round at his for a listen, hope he has spare bed, as from you are experiencing loss of sleep is on the agenda.

Cheers

Avonessence

Gopher:

it depends on your room. mine us huge, and zu themselves say in large rooms you are better off with more watts!

Still though, I think in general, people think Zu's do fine with 2W-3W amps and, unless you are playing them in closet, I simply do not agree.

still, if you were happy with Abbys then Zus should be fine as well. Tonal density is much greater, as you have noticed, but you also need to turn up volume more than you would think for such high sensitivity speakers. I think Phil's point about impedence explains this.

Gopher,

Thanks for that. Viewed on an iphone first of all and they looked poor quality. Just got home and, hey, they look rather good. Looking at those I must say they look rather dinky rather than awkward as they do in the Zu images thusfar. They also look rather unequivocally grey. I fear cosmic carbon has been rather over sold :).

Anyway, thanks for that and keep the feedback coming.

The only thing Phil hasn't come back on is the type of music he listened to. It would be really good, if you can tear yourself away, to hear about what you're listening to and what they're doing to it. Where readers recognise music they know it can really help fill in the missing pieces of the jigsaw.

James, we don't do sleepovers since the eldest went to Uni. and her brother (3 at the time) asked when he could have a sleepover!!!

Mike