Worst measuring loudspeaker?

[peanuts]

Zu audio continued, first edition druid.
https://www.soundstagenetwork.com/measurements/zucable_druid/

 

[Blumlein 88]

Zu audio continued, first edition druid.
https://www.soundstagenetwork.com/measurements/zucable_druid/

I think the Zu offerings have a place. They'll keep you from feeling bad about your car audio, or soundbar on your TV or other devices. They'll sound reasonably good vs your big rig Zu speakers. And you can use flea watt tube amps and still be okay.

/sarc

 

[wje]

I heard some Zu Audio... Dirty Weekends, I think?... at Capital Audiofest and they were really, really bad sounding.

I think the room may have been too large for the speakers, so perhaps that exacerbated things, but oooooooof. The tonality was all wrong. It sounded like bizarre EQ was being applied. Like a kid had played around with the sliders on one of those big old 1970s 31-band equalizers.

I felt the same way in the Zu room. I couldn't believe how large their room was - it was as if they found them some last minute space and quickly had them move their gear into that room. On the other hand, I wasn't too impressed with the room by Overture AV where they had the $65,000 Magicos set up. It was being pushed by $100K+ of Esoteric gear and just sounded off a bit. A guy from Esoteric vame in and fiddled with the clock on the gear and the sound timing really didnt improve. Granted, not that I'd be able to come up with $200K to have purchased that gear anyways.

 

[murraycamp]

Losses were in excess of contents coverage. Whether this loss was covered or not is a matter of interpretation. The house was beyond economic repair and was eventually torn down. I live in a different part of town now.

Harvey?

 

[TomB19]

I have heard them in customers houses on two occasions, I have no particular wish to hear another pair.
Keith

Klipsch modeled the response profile on the 2008 NASDAQ.

 

[Robin L]

Winners and still champions: The Glorious Auratones!:

Designed to sound like the worst-case-scenario car radio.

 

[mhardy6647]

^^^ The Horrortones

Yes, but in fairness (and as you implied), they were designed for a very important job: to mix the (car) radio AM hits. If it sounded good on the Horrortones, it sounded good in the car.

 

[A800]

Still better than Bose.

 

[Robin L]

^^^ The Horrortones

Yes, but in fairness (and as you implied), they were designed for a very important job: to mix the (car) radio AM hits. If it sounded good on the Horrortones, it sounded good in the car.

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Hey, if "Q" sez it's good.

Just saw his biodoc on Netflix. The Dude's got dual hearing aids.

[Not that I mean Ouincy Jones any disrespect. Guess this reminds me of Neil Young and Pono].

 

[mhardy6647]

Hey, if "Q" sez it's good.

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Just saw his biodoc on Netflix. The Dude's got dual hearing aids.

I reckon he's probably earned them. He's been around and listening to and working with music and musicians for a long, long time.

 

[Robin L]

I reckon he's probably earned them. He's been around and listening to and working with music and musicians for a long, long time.

Yeah, it's seriously crazy the man's still alive.

 

[mhardy6647]

Yeah, it's seriously crazy the man's still alive.

Based on the last interview I read with him, he himself is seriously crazy charmingly eccentric at this point in his life.

 

[thewas]

A new candidate https://www.stereophile.com/content/rethm-maarga-loudspeaker-measurements

 

[Purité Audio]

Possible contender?
https://www.hifinews.com/content/avantgarde-duo-primo-xd-loudspeaker-lab-report

Keith

 

[richard12511]

Possible contender?
https://www.hifinews.com/content/avantgarde-duo-primo-xd-loudspeaker-lab-report

Keith

Wow, the -6 point is 200hz?

And they're selling those for 80 thousand euro?

 

[Putter]

Wow, the -6 point is 200hz?

And they're selling those for 80 thousand euro?

That's really the point vs. the white van special or the rack system cheapies. It's spending serious money to get a piece of crap that you have to convince yourself that a different set of speaker wire or interconnect or power conditioner or ........ will make them sound better which it does for a short time due to expectation bias, eventually ending with you selling for another overpriced and hyped piece of crap because you bought into another story.

I suspect I've just written the raison d'etre for Audiosciencereview.

P.S. I found this site by googling 'audio science' after reading a few Audio Critic's online. I figured there had to be some group out there who didn't live in the country of Subjectivistan where it's all good and the only reliable source is your own ears.

 

[thewas]

JBL K2 S9900, of course not really bad but imho disappointing for being the most expensive? Harman flagship:



From https://www.hifitest.de/test/lautsprecher_stereo/jbl-k2_s9900_19289

 

[Soniclife]

Wow, the -6 point is 200hz?

Read the text.

Ignore the LF roll-off below 500Hz – an artefact of the short measurement time window resulting from the 2m measurement distance

Still looks like a crap in room un-gated response though, over 10db swings over 1K.

 

[Juhazi]

JBL K2 S9900, of course not really bad but imho disappointing for being the most expensive? Harman flagship:

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From https://www.hifitest.de/test/lautsprecher_stereo/jbl-k2_s9900_19289

And they loved it!

Fazit
Wen‘s interessiert, wo der legendäre Ruf der großen JBL-Lautsprecher herkommt, der möge sich mal diesen unfassbaren Lautsprecher anhören: Die K2 S9900 ist ein Auflösungswunder erster Güte, spielt völlig souverän und gelassen, wirkt tonal freundlich und ist ein so rundes und fein abgeschmecktes Gesamtkunstwerk, wie ich es selten erlebt habe.

 

[thewas]

Which I even believe in this case more than in the most usual cases were modern hifi press seems to praise everything, as such a big loudspeaker/horn is of course really impressive, still for me quite disappointing, especially the distortion measurement.