Zu Druid Clone

[keiths]

They look great Carl. How are they sounding?

[valves]

Hi,

How are they sounding?

I think they sound very good. It's early days still running in.

I have owned a pair of original Zu Druids and the wife hated them as they where tall and very glossy and expensive.

From memory these are as good as the Druid's but with more bass. I have used Mundorf caps and Mills resistors which Zu do or did as an upgrade.

The filter values are exactly the same as the Druid and internal cubic volume is the same, just different cabinet dimensions, internal cabling, speaker binding, etc.

I have compared these against a pair of ProAc Tablette Ref 8's with Rel Sub,

I'm selling the ProAc's.

Both of these speakers where running a Naim front end with power supply and Croft pre and power amps.

The Rel sub integrates better with the Druid clone, although it's not needed.

Considering these are stock Eminence drivers I am happily surprised.

A few people commented on the modifications that Zu do to the drivers and stated that clones would never be able to sound as good as Zu speakers, I'm not sure about that now.

These cost a fraction of the price, just time and effort and are completely tweakable/modable/upgradeable.

There are a pair of Druids not far from me, I'm trying to set up a bake off.

I'll keep you posted.

Carl.