Zu Audio Dominance

[nebojsa]

I was wondering if any of you, who are knowledgable in the audio, would examine this new speaker from Zu audio on technical terms. I often read about lobbing and other issues with line array and have never seen this type of arrangement where two tweeters are on the oposite sides. It seems to have garnered very good reviews. Of course, the price is high and I will never have one, however I am intrigued by its design. Is there something a diy community could learn here? Here is the sameple of the speakers
Audiogon Shows: THE 2011: Flamingo 4048
Any comments, observations, the possible alignment issues or perhaps comments from people who have heard them. Just simpy curious at this design.

[ttan98]

Originally Posted by nebojsa

I was wondering if any of you, who are knowledgable in the audio, would examine this new speaker from Zu audio on technical terms. I often read about lobbing and other issues with line array and have never seen this type of arrangement where two tweeters are on the oposite sides. It seems to have garnered very good reviews. Of course, the price is high and I will never have one, however I am intrigued by its design. Is there something a diy community could learn here? Here is the sameple of the speakers
Audiogon Shows: THE 2011: Flamingo 4048
Any comments, observations, the possible alignment issues or perhaps comments from people who have heard them. Just simpy curious at this design.

The freq. response(FR) curves on some of their models are unconventional, i.e. dips and rises in mid and high frequencies. If you want to see the FR curves go to Stereophile websites they had reviewed one of their models. To get these type FR curves from a high performance speakers manufacturer will make any technical perfectionist designer cringed but the reviewers from Stereophile seemed to like them(audio performance) and gave the speakers excellent reviews.

I think if you design speakers to be technically correct(accurate) it is most likely you get a good to excellent speakers than those speakers whose FR curves that are tuned to your ears.

[bear]

I was not there... not sure what those things that look like they might be tweeters might be...?

I'd say that they are an example of " yet another way to make a loudspeaker " ??

Maybe someone else knows what they are up to...

Just "off the cuff" comments from me.

_-_-bear