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Old 01-20-2021, 09:57 PM
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This is my first post so please be kind.
I have both the Dirty Weekends and the Soul Supremes. Run them with a Bottlehead Steromour II 2A3, Marantz 2270, or Mcintosh C26/MC2205.
The Dirty Weekends are a great deal and sound very close to the 4x more expensive Soul Supremes. I needed a speaker my wife would accept for our craftsman style home and that's why the Soul Supremes are in cherrywood.
The low powered Steromour II with either set of speakers is fantastic. If you listen to vocals then you will like the speakers. They do very well with acoustic guitar as well. Put on Linda Ronstadt Around Midnight and you feel like it's a private club performance. Pink Floyd does well with them too. The Marantz 2270 does a nice job driving them but classic rock and these speakers don't mix. Lucky for me I like the music where they are perform best.
The Dirty Weekends were around $1,000 and I think a value.
It took me some time to dial in the Soul Supremes by setting the floor height and angle. About 1/2" off a stone base with a slight rake backward and the speaker cabinet started to get this rich base Cello sound like a wood instrument. It's very pleasing and gives great depth to vocal and wood instrument pieces.
I did add the capacitor upgrade to the Dirty Weekends.
Good Luck and hope you like yours.
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Old 01-21-2021, 09:58 AM
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This is my first post so please be kind.

I have both the Dirty Weekends and the Soul Supremes. Run them with a Bottlehead Steromour II 2A3, Marantz 2270, or Mcintosh C26/MC2205.

The Dirty Weekends are a great deal and sound very close to the 4x more expensive Soul Supremes. I needed a speaker my wife would accept for our craftsman style home and that's why the Soul Supremes are in cherrywood.

The low powered Steromour II with either set of speakers is fantastic. If you listen to vocals then you will like the speakers. They do very well with acoustic guitar as well. Put on Linda Ronstadt Around Midnight and you feel like it's a private club performance. Pink Floyd does well with them too. The Marantz 2270 does a nice job driving them but classic rock and these speakers don't mix. Lucky for me I like the music where they are perform best.

The Dirty Weekends were around $1,000 and I think a value.

It took me some time to dial in the Soul Supremes by setting the floor height and angle. About 1/2" off a stone base with a slight rake backward and the speaker cabinet started to get this rich base Cello sound like a wood instrument. It's very pleasing and gives great depth to vocal and wood instrument pieces.

I did add the capacitor upgrade to the Dirty Weekends.

Good Luck and hope you like yours.


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Thanks for the info. My original ship date is tomorrow (1/22), but have not heard from Zu since being given that date some weeks ago.
Thought long & hard about going with the Soul Supremes. But, for $1315 (rustic hickory & cap upgrade) for the DW's, with the generous Zu return policy feel I have nothing to lose to give them a try first. I will be setting them on a a couple of pieces of granite so will be easy to adjust the height/rake without dealing with the carpet.
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This is my first post so please be kind.
I have both the Dirty Weekends and the Soul Supremes. Run them with a Bottlehead Steromour II 2A3, Marantz 2270, or Mcintosh C26/MC2205.
The Dirty Weekends are a great deal and sound very close to the 4x more expensive Soul Supremes. I needed a speaker my wife would accept for our craftsman style home and that's why the Soul Supremes are in cherrywood.
The low powered Steromour II with either set of speakers is fantastic. If you listen to vocals then you will like the speakers. They do very well with acoustic guitar as well. Put on Linda Ronstadt Around Midnight and you feel like it's a private club performance. Pink Floyd does well with them too. The Marantz 2270 does a nice job driving them but classic rock and these speakers don't mix. Lucky for me I like the music where they are perform best.
The Dirty Weekends were around $1,000 and I think a value.
It took me some time to dial in the Soul Supremes by setting the floor height and angle. About 1/2" off a stone base with a slight rake backward and the speaker cabinet started to get this rich base Cello sound like a wood instrument. It's very pleasing and gives great depth to vocal and wood instrument pieces.
I did add the capacitor upgrade to the Dirty Weekends.
Good Luck and hope you like yours.

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Old 01-28-2021, 08:55 AM
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My Omens have been delayed a week or two as I ask for rustic hickory with lots of figure. Zu was at the end of their hickory and they are looking thru the new lot of same to see if they can meet my request. Nice customer service for an inexpensive speaker. Hope to see shortly.
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Omen IIs arrived and am very pleased with their fit & finish. Initial thoughts are that they provide a nice, detailed sound with a 'focused' sound-stage. Will have to play with toe-in, distance to front/side walls, etc. But, so far, have heard nothing bad and quite a bit I like.

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Omen IIs arrived and am very pleased with their fit & finish. Initial thoughts are that they provide a nice, detailed sound with a 'focused' sound-stage. Will have to play with toe-in, distance to front/side walls, etc. But, so far, have heard nothing bad and quite a bit I like.


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Old 02-11-2021, 10:16 PM
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Glenn, congrats on the Omens! Enjoy
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Thank you.
I'll say again how impressed I am with their fit & finish for a $1215 set of speakers. The veneer is pretty much flawless and looks better in person than in the pic.
I was a little worried when first fired up that the sound-stage was compressed and very flat (no depth). But, considering how long (months) it took my last set of new speakers to break in I figured at least a few weeks. I've let them run for 24+ hour and they have really opened up. With a little positioning tweaking (mostly toe-in) and some run-time they have quickly become very pleasant to listen to. Only a single component in the crossover. I find them very attractive to look at and a very fast & detailed speaker to listen to, which is my preference.
Playing with triode vs UL at the moment. UL (double the power) is also a bit brighter and I'm not sure it will be my long-term fav. Am currently running 7581a output tubes, so will also have to try the EL34, KT77 & KT88 outputs to see which I prefer.

Chick Corea's "Return to Forever" side B as a tribute is working very well.
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