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What reviewers are saying
We read all the reviews. Here's what reviewers feel most strongly about:
- They employ a full-range driver design, often paired with a super-tweeter, to achieve a coherent and crossover-free sound across much of the frequency spectrum.
- Zu speakers are known for their high efficiency, making them compatible with a wide range of amplifiers, including low-powered tube amps.
Our favorite reviewer quotes:
- "The Soul VI with well recorded music though presents spaces that are huge and will layer out. It creates a believable world when you close your eyes, and its sound stage is so fixed and consistent that you really can trick yourself that you are moving into different spaces with every track." (https://positive-feedback.com/reviews/hardware-reviews/zu-audio-soul-vi-loudspeakers)
- "Zu Audio's Soul VI is the first speaker since 2013 that made my jaw drop. It did so immediately, right out of the box, and it continues to do so with every listen." (https://positive-feedback.com/reviews/hardware-reviews/zu-audio-soul-vi-loudspeakers)
- "The fidelity Soul 6 delivers is so right, so coherent that it carries and fills a space like a high value real instrument. Voices and instruments sound real, and to the size and scale of a live performance." (https://www.ecoustics.com/products/zu-audio-soul-6-loudspeakers)
- "The new Zu Soul 6 puts out truly gripping life-like dynamics and irresistibly sincere tone. Textures bellow and flow without effort, dynamic contrasts dance and burst, all in perfect time and throughout your room and home." (https://www.ecoustics.com/products/zu-audio-soul-6-loudspeakers)
- "To reinstate an old audiophile saying, the speakers fade away and just leave the music. A listen to the Zu Druid Mk. 6 is more music and less speaker, catching your attention from outside the framework of traditional boundaries and enlightening you to what could be, or what should have been." (https://audio-head.com/review-zu-druid-mk-vi)
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Products
Lineup comparison
We think it's helpful to understand how their products compare. To learn more about each, scroll to the section above to click through to individual product pages.
DWX
- Positioning: Medium format monitor, versatile for various placements.
- Description: Offers a blend of versatility and realism with its front-firing port, making it suitable for confined spaces without performance loss. Compared to the Union 6 Supreme, it is more compact and affordable, ideal for those seeking a high-efficiency speaker for smaller rooms or as a studio monitor.
Union 6 Supreme
- Positioning: Medium format floor-standing speaker with vivid and transparent sound.
- Description: Known for its vivid and toneful sound, featuring the ZuGriewe and scatter plate internals for improved bass and midrange performance. It offers a more sophisticated sound than the DWX.
Soul 6
- Positioning: Mid-format floor-standing speaker with exceptional tonal performance.
- Description: Features natural and uncolored sound, with a design that minimizes the need for precise amp matching and room placement. It provides a deeper bass response than the Union 6 Supreme.
Druid 6
- Positioning: High-efficiency floor-standing speaker with a focus on power and grace.
- Description: Features a new full-range driver and cabinet design for improved resolution and bass extension. It offers a more intense and relaxed playback compared to the Soul 6.
Definition 6
- Positioning: Flagship floor-standing speaker with full-range performance.
- Description: Features reach-out-and-touch-it intimacy and clarity, with dual full-range drivers and a powered subwoofer section. It surpasses the Druid 6 in terms of low-end reach and overall power.
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As for as tech breakthroughs, we have our patented DPC array: a tweeter inside two midranges. This improves sensitivity and dynamics through such light drivers (3g or less).
Across our entire line, you’re getting 3D soundstaging, detail, dynamics, and low distortion. Most noticeable to the listener is the way sound propagates throughout the room: we focus on a wide dispersion left and right, and slightly limit it top to bottom to minimize first reflections on the floor and ceiling. This makes the speakers easier to place.
As you move up price in our line, the extent to which we do this passive beamforming on the vertical axis descends into a lower and lower frequency.
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Perlistens are generally not difficult to run. Take the S7t for example: High 80s, low 90s sensitivity. That can run with anything. But, because Perlistens can play so loud, they do like a lot of power to fully show off.
Two brands we generally pair Perlisten with: On the upper end is Audioflight from Italy. On the budget friendly end, Primare. But they've been paired with so much—we haven't come across a pairing they don't work with unless it's a 3W triode tube amp due to insufficient power.
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