Anyone listen to Zu Audio's Definition Mk3?

Spirit,

They same had been said about the Dart amp or any other SS amp. It you are not willing to hook up the ASR to the right wire/components then stay away from it. But if you have the time and find a used unit you can steal one from a owner who is wanting to try the latest/greatest amp.

A cool and detached presentation is not what I or 6 other owners are hearing. 5 of the owners have tubed Dac's, 3 AMR/2 Lampizator and one SS. The 7th one I have no info on his source. Three of us run Zu Def speakers with the Emitter 1.

Read the PF review of the Emitter when the reviewer found the right hook up wire for the ASR and what he said about it.

There are some who have heard Zu speakers that have said they were left with a HF sound. You and I know different when hooked up to the right gear.

I hear Dad running around the corner with his SET thoughts LOL. Yes they do sound good on Zu speakers. Will wait for your thoughts on amp selection with anticipation.

You are not going to use the stock Footers for your new Def4 are you?

The Purepower is not a PC and doesn't limit dynamics.

My own experience with ASR is a clean, smooth but bleached aural presentation; good without regard to cost but tonally incomplete in any case and not retrievable if your criteria for fidelity include holistic representation of the leading, middle and decay of a note, as well as many simultaneous notes together. ASR produces an illusion of fidelity rather than the actual facsimile of it. Very good. Very expensive for what you get. Not far enough on the arc of convincing musicality. But I fully understand why some people are attracted to the clean, desiccated sound of ASR along with many other advanced but flat solid state options similar.

Phil

Cobra, the ASR's neutrality and low noise is simply highlighting the idiosyncrasies of your system/room

23,

3 owners of Def speakers with the ASR amp are not hearing what you did with the ASR.

I have learned to disregard your thoughts on the ASR amp as a misguided missile. What you think is real sounding and fake sounding in your system is IYO and not true of the ASR Emitter amp in general.

Cobra, the ASR's neutrality and low noise is simply highlighting the idiosyncrasies of your system/room