Zu Dirty Weekend 6 went on sale today

@bourbonkernel

Did a rough mockup of a Zu speaker and I’m trying to figure out how the front left placement is going to work out. This picture is showing the speaker about 1’ from the left wall, and about a 5" from the front wall. But something seems wrong about the record cabinet being that close to it. Will that matter? Curious on your thoughts on how the Zu would perform in that scenario.

I’m thinking if I should pull the record cabinet about 6-8’ leftward (basically "toward" the camera so that nothing is around the speaker at all. That will require me to get a 35’ RCA cable (I hide all my AV equipment behind the TV).

Just trying to do some pre-setup so I can get started to listening to them right away this Friday!

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I have found these to be less fussy about placement than the bottom loading design of the DW/Omen.  I have my left speaker a similar distance from both back and side wall and it sounds great.  I don’t have anything impeding it against wall until several more feet, but who knows…

It may very well sound great in that corner. I’ve found most speaker placement to be a bunch of trial and error. And small movements can make a decent different. 
 

I think tilting the speaker back a few degrees might help the stereo image fill the room better so this is an additional trick you can play with the included threaded feet and locking nut. 
 

I do think my Superflys are sounding a touch smoother after several days of constant play. Whether that’s my brain or the speakers I know not…..but many believe these speakers to have long break in times.

Oh boom! Thanks for that. I didn't know they had that locking nut on the bottom. Yep, I'm definitely going to play around with angle to try to get them to sound as best they can from a seated and standing position.

Yea, I hear you on break in times. One question I was going to ask you if you notice them opening up more after 200 hours. I would think 200 hours is really minimal and I would expect them to smoothen up some more!

I basically moved the mock-ups more away from the corner (and more to the right edge of the window). I think they are probably going to sound better there. I also ordered a longer RCA cable so that I can move the turntables further away from the speakers. 

I think I've prepared enough at this point, just need to get them! I'll take pictures of my ogden trip and will update.

@fendersrule 

I’m probably realistically around 100hrs at this point so it’s why I’d def qualify my review as early. Most of my playback falls with peaks in low 80s so not high intensity. 
 

looking forward to see and hearing what you think. And the others in this thread. I’ll post some pictures when I get around to hosting them somewhere. I didn’t realize you can’t just upload one directly to the thread. 

Wow! So 200 (zu break in) + 100 hours of your own. Def keep keeping us updated of the improved performance. Zu does claim that 2-4 weeks it will continue to improve!

Sadly, you have to use an external host to post pictures. There’s tons of free one if you just search for it. Then just drop a link for us!