Just ordered some Zu Audio speakers!

Those look nice! http://www.ascendacoustics.com/pages/products/speakers/SRM1/srm1.html

Don't let the black friday sale bother you, I believe those prices to be their new lower price. Apparently they want to increase volume of sales.

The dark cherry and espresso look the best to me, don't know which I would pick. This color thing annoys me. It took me a week to decide which color would be best for me with the Zu. Give me only one option and I'm happier.

newrival wrote: »

To me it sounds like casual dynamic listening. perhaps not terribly revealing. Sounds like an interesting philosophy.

That is what I'm thinking as well. If we are correct it should make for great HT, dynamic yet forgiving. Not to mention you only need the lowest power weakest amplifiers to drive them. That saves a lot of coin. Its nice that they give you 60 days for trial and charge no shipping to send them to you and back to them if you don't care for the sound. That would be over $100 they would loose in shipping fees if someone doesn't like them.

Many of their speakers are broken in at the factory but they state the Omens are not. Being in a production facility I can tell you this saves them a lot of time and money. Imagiine the noise in the room with 50 speakers breaking in!

I just got these Druids in before the weekend to use as surrounds. I picked them because they are tall enough to fire over the back of the couch. As you see them in the pic I have set up in the entry way using a 30wpc Dayton T-amp with an Oppo DVD player as the source. After hearing them in stereo it seems almost criminal to use as surrounds. :cool:

I may actually use these as surrounds in a system with my Duo horns as the fronts rather than the Omen Def. I didn't expect this but the character of the Druids is quite the same as the Duos. If I had known that up front I probably would not have ordered the Omen Def. They might make for a good center channel used as a pair.

Edit: Forgot to add that these are great audiophile speakers that cost relatively nothing and can be sourced and driven by almost nothing as well... with less than 30 watts they are taking control over a huge open room and doing it quite nicely!

madmax

Last night I moved the Druids from the entry way into the big room beside my horns. The room is approximately 20x35 open area with double high ceiling. With the same 30w amp they really take control of the room. I was surprised that in a MUCH larger area the speakers sounded way larger and more open. I expected them to sound very small. I could live with these as my main setup! Still waiting for the Omen Defs to arrive at which point these will become surrounds.

Slyder01 wrote: »

hi guys,, newbie here and first time posting...would that amp be enough to power a set of front presence speakers? I have a yammy rxa2000 and i need another amp for the front presence.. I just want a small in size amp that puts out a clean sound.. thanx.

have a csi5 center, rti6 fronts, fxia6 rears, small paradigms for rear back(for now) and a set of onkyo from a box set for the presence(for now).. pws 450 and dsw micro pro 2000 for the booming

It may be, hard to say. I'd probably try to find something a little more powerful if I wanted to be sure.

http://www.parts-express.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?Partnumber=300-812

I've been thinking this one would be cool for something. You could even use as a sub amp if you switch in the low pass filter.

I've noticed that speakers "meant" for HT often have slightly different curves in their frequency response which helps with explosions, rattling chains and other movie type content. I do not like listening to music through this type of speaker but prefer it (somewhat) for movies.