The good news on the Zu front here at the chapel is that I'm finally cracking the code of how to get them to sing in those areas where they've been a little opaque and not fully transparent.
I remain envious of those who hit a home run w them seemingly out of the box, while its taken me a decade to get them to fully realise they're potential.
I'm not sure I'd give a girl this amount of time LOL.
And I've dumped friends who've not kept me amused in the same time I've stuck it out w Zu.
My original issue that plagued me for the first 9 years of Zu ownership (although I didn't really realise it at the time), was living w them in a truly atrocious acoustic. A 30x27 expanse of concrete ceiling and 3 no. 9x7 windows in my 27x13 concrete front wall, w very few soft furnishings or ability to easily install acoustic treatments, a reflective Hell, left me with a sound that had no chance of being warm and immersive, defeating all attempts at seamless sub bass integration and attempting a good stage.
All I could really maximise was what sold Zu to me, it's full range tone density and macrodynamic capabilities. It became maybe the best audiophile party speaker around, but I could never go from first row/spotlit sound to anything more introspective/gently illuminated.
Until of course I bought the chapel, carved out the new space, and reinstalled the Zus.
30 seconds in I knew I was cooking, the greatest sense of both panic release (nothing like realising $80-100k spend on the room was so worth it) and instant awareness that the Zus could be both compelling on a macrodynamic level and also to the deeper musical message.
And so started my final phase on getting the system, and thus Zus, sorted. The last 3 months with a handful of slam dunk improvements have got me falling in love w the Zu sound all over again (yes, still w the caveat that they have their limitations).
If anyone had said to me 3 years ago I'd be really enjoying classical thru them, and picking up on a whole bunch of cues inaudible to me then, I'd have asked what their drink of choice was LOL.