I enjoy reading posts on this forum but have only posted a handful of times. When I saw a steady stream of negative comments about Zu by one poster in particular, I was anxious to get Zu's side of the story. I alerted them to this thread and here is their reply.
Disclaimer: I own Soul Superfly speakers.
There seem to be a few misconceptions revealed in this thread, so here are some facts to stabilize the banter:
1. FOR THE RECORD
If theres any notable inspiration behind our loudspeakers its Henry Olsen whose 1934 design for RCA set the template for full range driver loudspeakers of high efficiency.
2. ABOUT OUR FULL RANGE DRIVER. Its made by Zu AND Eminence, with a few parts coming from other suppliers. It has many things finished by Eminence: the voice coil, the charging of the magnet, the riveting of the yoke / magnet / frame assembly, lay-up of the primary cone, the former assembly. Zu adds its own features to the platform by using modern materials to gain improvements to bandwidth, power handling, power transfer, etc. A quick check to measure the Thiele/Small electromechanical parameters, or even the weight of the driver will suffice to prove our Zu driver is not an Eminence B-102, which does use the same cone profile, voice coil diameter and frame.
Zu does much of the final assembly in-house; driver frame finish, phase plug assembly lay-up final cone processing and driver lay-up, final QC, batching, matching and burn-in. its a hands-on process that includes the hand removal of the center dust cap using an Xacto knife.
4. ABOUT OUR TWEETER. One forum posting quotes an inverted tweeter! Were sorry to disappoint but there is nothing inverted here. We use the Eminence APT tweeter driver.
5. INCIDENTAL POINTS
We dont mind that the Lore weighs more than the Omen.
Phase accuracy in a bass-reflex loudspeaker is phase accurate noise if thats important to you, no problem.
Any more info required, just ask us we enjoy a good chat.
Cheers
Simon Matanle
Sales & Marketing Director
Zu Audio
simon@zuaudio.com