Zu Soul Superfly

Mike -- I can go through Phil's posts and pull out contradictory quotes. I have no interest in doing so, and Phil will probably squeal that I am taking him out of context. Worse, I will have to actually read them again and seeing "just plop them down" repeated along with long shopping list of components is of no interest to me. My preference is to talk about sound, not gear.

Phil: Despite my jibes at you and our disagreements, I really do appreciate the factual data you share about Souls. And yes, distinctions like wide vs widER dispersement is exactly area I am curious about in new FRD.

I also very much appreciate the knowledge you get from Zu folks, who I like very much.

I do not feel Druid is "beamy" in negative auditory sense, it just has very directional HF (thank Gods!) And my room isolation strategy is not driven by my preference for that sort of sound, it is just the strategy I need to take to get best sound for me given limitations of my room and my life.

>>"just plop them down" <<

That wasn't advice, it was merely a statement of what the non-audiophile music listener can do and still be happy.

I was talking about sound, not gear. Any gear suggestions are strictly for purposes of reaching goals in sound.

Phil

>>I do not feel Druid is "beamy" in negative auditory sense<<

Like the beamy nature of the original Quad ESL, Druid's directionality is boon to some, bane to others. Every beamy speaker ends up controversial at least in part for that property. I leave it to others to decide whethr directionality is bane or boon to them. It's less suitable to HT2.0, for example than it is to single-seat audiophile nirvana. There's no point in arguing either way with someone who embraces or rejects beamy directionality. In Druid it's not a problem for me, and for the system I use them in, there is asset value to its directionality. But then I have another system with Definitions, so I don't have to choose. For the more typical buyer building one system, I think most people with find Soul gives them more latitude than Druid, to satisfy both precision audiophile cravings and whole-room satisfaction for group-oriented sound. Another reason that Soul will outperform Druid for the precision audiophile is that it is plain and simple a fundamentally more accurate speaker before you ever get to the fiddly stuff. It's possible -- POSSIBLE -- that some people familiar with both will feel the Druid is more euphonic to them. No arguing with that. But Soul more accurately represents music as you'd hear it live, for requency accuracy, detail transmission, and dynamic reasons.

Phil

Zanon: For F***'s Sake!

Just go and listen to the Soul Superfly's and trust your ears.