Absolute Polarity—A Recording Frame of Reference (2/5)
So what does it mean to have an absolute polarity recording, of Eagle-Woman playing the Navajo log drum? It would mean that the recording in your hand will cause positive voltage correlative to the original acoustic events compression of air…
Absolute Polarity—Is Anything Really Absolute (1/5)
What bears and in which woods? …Let’s take a page out of Harry Olson’s book: Music, Physics and Engineering. Imagine a balloon inflated and tied. Inside the balloon the air pressure is higher than ambient…
Polarization—The Earth is not flat and your sound shouldn’t be either.
Nearly all of us want full, rich, big, round sound, with a stereophonic sound-field that is swim-through-it dense—we want realistic and expansive.
UPDATE: Omen Sale, New Definition & Dominance, DIY Kits
Open but throttled. Yes, we are back to something that at least feels like normal here at Zu, and we’re much closer to full production. Still, our strict COVID-19 protocols remain to help safeguard…
Production Phases - Cabinet Plate
Soul Supreme cabinet process, a basic how it’s made gallery.
COVID-19 / Twelve Month Shift
We are open under sticked personal and industrial hygiene protocols to help in controlling the spread of COVID-19; safeguard us, the people we directly effect and our means to contribute and earn. While we are…
Old Shop Comes Down
The Swift Building was already old and tired in 1986 but there was a ton of cheap space, just what was needed for setting up my first big speaker workshop—well, that and being in a part of Ogden where noise was not a concern. I was sixteen…
Dominance & Definition Series Six
Attention all planets of the Solar Federation. Dominance and Definition Series Six approach.
Zu/DL-103 / Turntable Setup 101
…the Denon DL-103 featurs a cutting lathe sized conical stylus, which seats nicely from top to near-bottom and is less sensitive to left/right angular differences; and that it’s the right size (not teeny-tiny) it doesn’t skate around in the bottom of the groove high-frequency hunting. This also makes for a far less abusive…
Loading Resistors
Loading resistors allow Zu loudspeaker users to experiment in ways most other speaker owners cannot.
Shop Life / Hostage for a Year
Harvey and James. Two years ago those two held the rest of us hostage—for the whole year…
Chirs Bieler's Omen Experience
Hello. My name is Chris Bieler. I work at Panavision NY—film / digital camera / lens supplier. I have a modest, vinyl centered, 2-channel stereo system, and there I recently had an extraordinary, life changing experience.
Austin Guitar House
My name is Oz Hofstatter, owner of Austin Guitar House, and I am a proud owner of the Druid VI.
Long Island Barbershop
A barbershop Nick Lowe might patron, along with his kids and grandkids.