Bob Carver meets Zu

by zufan on Ever Evolving
downsized room, alas
Wharfedale up at the cabin
ice ice baby
You break it, you buy it
decades of concert tix

Description

My eternal chase for point source sound has taken me from Innersound to Vienna to B&W to Tyler to Sanders to Tannoy to Golden Ear to Zu to Tannoy to KEF (Ref 1) back to Zu to Sonist to PMC to Fyne back to KEF Blade 2. Just sold the Blade to recoup the cost. SVS Ultra Tower back in main room & yup I don't miss the Blade. New Zu DW6 are singing loud & proud in the main room whilst breaking in. Sound so good may stay there.

Dug the new Carver Black Magic 25 so much I bought another to mono. Then discovered vertical biamping which is a game changer. Did the same thing with the Mini GaN 5. Astounding. Anyone else vertical 2 stereo amps? 

The NAD & SVS is in other room for cinema. 
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Room Details

Dimensions: 15’ × 9’  Small
Ceiling: 8’

Components Toggle details

    • SVS Ultra Tower
    The best bang for the buck in speakers you will ever find. Astounding. On par with Zu re price to value.
    • Zu Audio Dirty Weekend 6
    Superfly edition in 'cosmic carbon'
    • Wharfedale EVO 4.4
    Easy on the ears, balanced top to bottom.
    • Bob Carver Black Magic 25
    Sound so moist I bought another to vertical bi-amp (then sold 1 to downsize).
    • Class D Audio Mini GaN 5
    5 lbs of pure miracle. Bought 1 then another a couple weeks later to vertical biamp in the summer.
    • Pioneer PLX-1000
    Keen to have a direct drive in the rig. Talk about punching above it's weight. Under $800 & sounds delish. Have Zu modded Denon 103 on it.
    • Marantz TT-151
    Staring at it gives me a chubb.
    • NAD 588
    Their tasty TT; mostly built by pro-ject, simple & works great.
    • Zu Audio Denon 103 Zu mod
    Best cart for the bucks around
    • Parks Audio Puffin
    A phono pre from the future. Astoundingly fascinating. Shames all others regardless of price.
    • Sony HAP-Z1ES
    Old faithful. My longest tenured component by far. Replaced stock hdd w/ssd.
    • Quadraspire SVT Bamboo
    Nice rack. Earmuffs.
    • Richard Gray 400 Pro II
    Actually have 2: one for main rig, one for TV room.
    • Blue Jeans Cable Canare 4S11 Speaker Cable
    Competes with anything, including Fidelium at a fraction of cost.

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Really beautiful system. I live just a few miles from both Zu and RBH Sound. I traded into a pair of Zu cubes. They did so many things well, but sounded just awful with some recording. Have you enjoyed your pair?

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