Zu Omen or Tekton Lore

B.J. - Great post. Got anything more to contribute?

Hahahaha.....I agree Devil Boy.....can't wait to hear more:)

Zu will likely not accept this challenge wishful thinking guys...

I'm actually not a fan of the adversarial direction this is going. Not that I'm opposed to comparisons, and I have definitely contributed my own observations. I guess I just don't like the idea of the manufacturers getting into a verbal arms race. Does that kind of controversy help either/any of them?

Since Audiogon is an audiophile’s forum I don’t intend to get involved in using it as a conversational tool with other manufacturers.

I also can only speak of what I know, which is Zu, not the products of other manufacturers. If there was an implication in my post that another manufacturer’s loudspeaker produces more distortion than ours, that certainly wasn’t intentional – does it really come across in that way? (I don’t think it does).

The idea of a golden-eared reviewer being enticed to do any one-on-one shoot-out is fanciful and pointless – what matters is what customers think, not reviewers. Last time I checked, reviewers had a pulse, which is to say they’re human and possessed of the same subjective sensibilities as the rest of us – so just because a reviewer might like something doesn’t mean someone else doesn’t, and vice versa.

We don’t design our loudspeakers to look good in measurement tests – we design them to sound great playing music. More than a few times I’ve come across people who say that a fantastic live gig is nothing to do with measurements and all to do with dynamics. That sense of ‘live’ is what we strive to achieve with Zu – more than enough people think we do it very well and that makes us happy, because they’re happy.

We offer a 60 day money-back trial for anyone wanting to hear Zu in their own home, playing their music. If they love it, great, if they don’t, that’s fine. What matters is, they’ve tried us out.

That’s the only shoot-out that matters.

Sincerely

Simon