Zu Soul Superfly

Mine have arrived but, in a strange twist, are sitting idle in my room waiting for an amp. Funny that. Should have some reports starting next weekend.

My gut on the price increase: I think that they are still trying to find their sweetspot in the market. I think that the buzz around the Superfly has been overwhelming and that they are building speakers as fast as they can. I would imagine that the increase in price is, in large part, designed to help them build a company that can manufacture more product when they announce a new line rather than having to stagger production cycles like they are now. My sense is that they are staying direct (in the states, at least) but want to build capacity.

I can't wait to hear these beauties.

Start burning them in with whatever crap old receiver you have around the house. They take a bit to start sounding good so you may as well take advantage of the downtime.

I just noticed that Zu came out with a new line of cables which appear to be their new 'top of the line' at a pretty darn low cost. I'm curious about their speaker cables for the sole reason I read of so many people preferring libtec to anything else with Zu speakers, but I'm using an all Wywire system right now and don't think I want to even experiment with breaking my complete chain.

Still, its cheap though...

P.S. I also just noticed Sam Telling also backed out on the stereophile review due to the delay.

Gopher

What problems do you hear in your system that you think new cables will fix and why?

Zanon,

Absolutely nothing at the moment. I was previously having a little difficulty with the emotional communicative-ness of my analog setup but since moving to a system made of Wywire through out I have finally put that behind me and also gained a level of refinement and performance I didn't know I was missing.

That said I have two amps (SS and Tube) and two preamp outputs and would love the ability to simply swap the speaker cables while retaining similar virtues. After experiencing what I have now cable wise, nothing I've owned before will cut it, but I do wonder about synergy for the second system with the speakers own manufacture--especially at the bargain basement 'customer appreciation week' prices.

Gopher: Yes, it is exactly this path you describe that I have no interest in getting on. I learn nothing about sound this way.

Anyway, I have all solid state+DAC integrated and peachtree nova to test with druid -- i say goodbye to class-d forever! (except in subwoofer)

Also, I finally get dual sub -- both ported unfortunately but it is what my budget will allow.

Most interestingly, I make some radical changes to room. I still have lots of setup, testing, tuning etc. but I am already surprised at how much better tile under Druid makes the bass compared to even my wood planks. So much so in fact that I may try two inches of brick.