Krell amp with Zu Essence speaker

Hope so. Should be about two weeks now. Shouldn't need a lot of power with these. Most speakers need to get over the 100 dB mark to really start to sing and exhibit their best. With the Essence, that should take about two watts of power. Full range speakers are odd, though. Seems like you either like them or hate them. Which is why I went with Zu- you don't like 'em, you have 60 days to return them for a full refund. Not a bad deal, a two month in house demo. Who else offers that?

If you are new to high end audio

And you already have a set of ZU Essences

And you have never heard a tube amplifier

Then you owe it to yourself to try one out on that speaker!

In most rooms with many tube amps they will play as loud as you can stand to be in the room, with power to spare.

Absolutely. My Essence just arrived today. Great match for my MastersounD Compact 845 amplifier. Detailed, smooth, great soundstage and imaging, and plenty loud with only 30 wpc.

Afc, could you comment on the sound of the Essence?

The first thing that struck me was the detail. Can hear stuff that really wasn't obvious with my monitors. The highs are silky smooth- much better than the cone drivers on the monitors. Good bass- not thundering, but solid. Excellent soundstage and imaging. Negatives? They seem, compared to the Aliantes, a bit sloppy in the mids once in a while. Perhaps sloppy is a bad term- jumbled is more like it. But that's fairly minor, and the details and sounstaging plusses compensate more than enough. It's more like "live" music. Doesn't seem manufactured at all.