Zu Omen or Tekton Lore

The Snell C7's beat Martin logan at their own game in many ways... except space and air.

They are a dynamic speaker...

I'm simply asking that if someone wanted to go to a dynamic type speaker on a budget and if said person likes the stageing, detail, immediacy etc of a planar which Tekton might suit them???

I assumed because of the discussion here on this thread that the soundstage is larger/deeper and with more detail with the Katz and Lore-S the'd be the closest, and since there is no comparing of the two on this thread or anywhere on the net that I can tell, I thought I'd pose the question.

So I may have been wrong, you say Lore's are the ones...

Thanks

I would say the Lore-S has effortless detail, soundstage depth to spare, and a good warmth. Lore has the dynamics and can fill a room more, though. I was persuaded by the idea of pursuing greater detail from the Lore via Goraman's upgrade approach rather than keep the Lore-S and sacrifice the dynamics I had become used to.

I am not familiar with planar speakers, so can't comment on how Lore-S would compare beyond some very brief run-ins at RMAF the one year I went in 2010.

The Lores fresh off the boat and right out of the box are dynamic,warm and offer reasonable sound stage but lack refinement through no fault in there drivers, cabinet or design.They are limited only by price point.
Spend a little more money on them internally and the results with good source material go's from good to jaw dropping and drooling on your self.My guess is the Lore S most likely uses better capacitors and maybe resisters.
If your looking for electrostatic imaging it is simply not possible to beat Sound Lab 945's with 2X 3125 square inches of radiating surface.No 10 inch driver and 1 inch tweeter can radiate at a combined 11 inch driver surface the kind of imaging possible from a massive high voltage panel.
I would love to have a Lore S owner come over and hear my Lores and give me there opinion.
But being none of us has heard any of all the candidates auditioned in the same room on the same equipment it is all subjective any way REALLY...

Genjamon, a month or so back you were talking about trying different amps with your Lores in an attempt to close the gap in sound between them and the Lore-S. I'm wondering if that happened and how it went?

Floosh, yeah I've had an initial foray into amp experimentation. I have an Onix SP3 playing for the past two weeks. It has the recommended upgraded tubes - Groove Tubes 12AX7, Electro Harmonix 6922, SED Flying C 6L6GC.

My other amp I had been using is the Dayens Ampino 25WPC integrated. So now I'm using a dynamic ~40WPC push pull tube amp. I find the SP3 to have more soundstage depth, better fleshiness of instruments, isn't less detailed than the Ampino, but takes a little of the edge off. Overall, I think an improvement, but I haven't yet swapped back to the Ampino again. I want to do that again sometime soon after my ears have really settled into the SP3, as I've found sometimes when I swap back I find things I didn't realize I was missing after the newness of the new amp wears off.

I'm quite interested in trying the new Red Wine Audio Signature 15 - it might be the best of both worlds and would save me from focusing next on cleaning up power to amp/preamp, allowing me to focus on cleaning up the power on my source.