ZU OMEN speakers 12ohms??

Zmanastronomy
Have you tried a pair of the Zu's yet? You can't bet the deal Zu offers for trying their speakers, remember you can buy the Omens cheaper from Music Direct in Chicago than from Zu and with the same return policy in place. The answer to your question...which speakers have I compared them to well I'm "Old School" I like the Klipsch Heresy's and La Scala's. Lately I've been using a Class A solid state amp, but I've also got a VTL ST85 that really sounds nice with the Zu's. As for a pre I usually use a Placette passive. By the way the room treatment looks pretty cool what exactly is that product, and was it easy to find?

I picked up a pair of Tekton Design Lore's. I'm very pleased with them so far.
As far as the room treatments, one of my freinds has an air/heat business and I got them through him. The stuffs call Duct Board. The black kind like I use is a mold treated duct board. After a few hurricanes (Florida) the Gov. made use use a mold treated duct board and it just so happens to be black. So I cut them to legth and spay painted the edges to match the rest and the look pretty good and do a great job for room treatments.
I have $150 in the whole room. Thats bass traps too. But I got everything at cost.

So if I wanted to go the tube route, I could get a pair of Omens and drive them easily with a small 20 watt or so tube integrated without strain? My elite receiver has 110 watts per channel.

Absolutely, 20 watts will be more than enough.

Zman
Good luck with your new speakers I'm sure they will be very pleasing.I'm not familiar with the Lore's I'll have to give them a listen soon. The more gear I listen to less seems like more, taking the crossovers out of the design just seems to make more sense, and the simpler Class A circuits that seem to becoming more popular really sound amazing i.e. Nelson Pass's First Watt stuff is just to good. Thanks for the info on the room treatment I will give it a try.