Zu Dirty Weekend 6 went on sale today

I bought a pair of Dirty Weekends a year and a half or so ago and after what I thought was a reasonable break-in period I put my Heresy IIIs (Capitol Records anniversary edition...for whatever that's worth) back in...I was amazed at how much better they sounded than the Zus. More coherent, tonally far more satisfying and seemingly far more accurate (still have 'em and they're excellent)...Zu was very nice about my sending 'em back and they paid for the shipping as they had been dinged when shipped to me. I haven't heard any other Zu speaker so it could be their other stuff is great...but the Heresy IIIs (I also rejected Heresy IVs for bad midrange from the redesigned polyamide diaphragm horns) were much better to my ears. 

The lesson I learned from that most recent round of new speaker curiosity (Really simply curiosity, as my speakers at the time were working swimmingly) was to absolutely listen to speakers before buying. No amount of hyperbole will match your specific tastes. Previous to the ZU issues I convinced myself that a pair of Sonist Audio speakers might be more efficient and sound better than my Silverline Preludes. Nope. The Preludes were far better in every way...off went the Sonists. Damn. The ZU thing was around the time of the Heresy IV experiment, and man...I was tiring of sending speakers back. This year I improved my rig with a Pass XA-25 and various speaker and signal cables, all with excellent results...until my next bout with unconstrained curiosity...