Zingali Overture series thumbs "up" or "down"

A fascinating old thread about my favourite loudspeakers with quite opposite opinions. I guess, it only proves that Zingali should be matched carefully. I used to own Ov.3s many years ago, could not tame the bass in my 13’ x 19’ room and sold it, owned various speakers since - from ATC and Shahinians to JMR and finally top of the line Living Voice OBX R2, with outboard crossovers. These are highly regarded and thought to be very transparent, detailed and musical, but don’t come close in that respect to Zingali in my opinion. I could never forget that magical, natural Zingali midrange, and 10 years lated snapped a used pair of Overtures 2. Couldn’t be happier ever since. I am driving it with a 45W Linear Tube Audio Z40, and EL34 NOS Mullards sound fantastic with this horn/compression driver. Vocals, Jazz, Classical, Blues are probably the best genres for these speakers.

well i guess all the opposite opinions has came from the old model overture series with "S" and later model without "S" as they were totally different tuning speakers. the later version use paper woofers and sounds much more neutral, clean and fast but still maintain all the beauty of traditional Zingali sound to me. I have pair of zingali overture 1 with Denafrips Pontus 2 dac and musical fidelity A200dm ( 60w class A) set in my bedroom, all i can say is they sounds fantastic! 

Any here have experience to share regarding service/support from Zingali?

My best friend bought a pair used a number of years ago, and when he had trouble, I think it was the base was cracking, Zingali was no help after multiple contacts. He was willing to pay to solve the issue, but they had no interest. He eventually sold them for a big loss. A shame, they were gorgeous and he apparently liked the sound from them.  

Hopefully for owners, his example isn't the norm...Cheers,

Spencer