Zu Omen or Tekton Lore

Also, what are the main differences between the Lore v. Lore-S?

I'm seriously contemplating selling my Merlin TSM-MMi's in favor of the Lore/Lore-S. These speakers really sound like my cuppa. I listen to mostly modern jazz and metal. The Merlins absolutely shine with jazz, anything acoustic, and vocals but fall way short with any type of heavy rock. The Tektons sound like they do well with both. Will initially be running them with a Cary SLI-80 F1 but also plan on going the low-powered SS route as well. Maybe the RWA 30.2 LFP-V or some Class A SS.

Any owners in the Rhode Island area?

The Mundorf SiO cap upgrade for the Lore's is $625. That's a bigtime price for speaker that sells for $1000. Has anyone had experience with it yet? Is it really worth $625?

There's a user who did his own replacement with Mundorf SIO caps, I believe with Pendragons, and said it was immediately evident and great improvement. I haven't seen anything about doing so with Lores, but I would expect similar. It's hard to say whether it's worth it - I don't have experience swapping capacitors and thus don't know how much change to expect. I have explored the cost of swapping to Mundorf SIO on my own, and the capacitors involved cost about $600 for the pair of speakers. Eric isn't making money on the crossover upgrades - it's just that the Mundorf SIO's in the values involved cost that much.

I can't speak to the crossover update for the Lores, but I purchased the upgraded crossovers from Eric for the Pendragons and it is a substantial upgrade. I only installed the upgrade in one speaker so that I could do a direct comparison between the upgraded and stock versions. The upgrade was easily detected without any burn-in time. The new crossover provides much more upper end detail and presents a greater sense of 'air' around instruments and vocals. It is very cliche, but it really is as if you removed a veil from in front of the speaker.

It is a significant monetary investment, but I think the upgraded crossovers are well worth it on the Pendragons. And as has already been said, Eric is not making any money from the upgraded crossovers -- the Mundorf Caps are very expensive for the sizes required (8.2 and 10.0 uF for the Pendragons). You could probably save some money and use some different caps (Jantzen Superior Z caps or Mundorf Mcap Supremes), but the silver in oil are really special.