Hey KCDD,
I am not familiar with the electronics you are have now with your Omens, but I am very familiar with where you’re coming from. I own many pairs of speakers and lot of Zu’s. And I listen to a lot of metal. My system changes frequently but about half the time, I find that most of my metal music is unlistenable. Most of it is just really poorly recorded and some gear just really showcases that.
If I were you, my next step would be to try the Schiit gear with the Omens. The Aegir was compared to the First Watt SIT3 in a Stereophile review and he called the Aegir about 80% of the SIT3 (paraphrasing). I don’t think you need the mono blocks though cause the Omens can get insanely loud with little effort. I heard the Omen DW’s at the most recent CapFest and Zu played them so loud, the walls of the humongous conference room were shaking. And then I asked Sean, “about how many watts you think are going into the speakers now?” He said probably 30. My phone SPL meter said 120 dB and I was 15 feet away. And it was still really clean sounding. You don’t need a lot of power to get those going.
I understand what a lot of the other responses you were getting, saying that the gear doesn’t care what genre you play. That’s true. But different genres vary in recording quality. And most metal is recorded piss poor unfortunately. So it does matter what you pair with your speakers. I say upgrade the gear but keep the speakers for now. I’ve gone through a lot of gear and it’s hard to beat the Omen DW’s for anywhere close to that money.
I am not familiar with the electronics you are have now with your Omens, but I am very familiar with where you’re coming from. I own many pairs of speakers and lot of Zu’s. And I listen to a lot of metal. My system changes frequently but about half the time, I find that most of my metal music is unlistenable. Most of it is just really poorly recorded and some gear just really showcases that.
If I were you, my next step would be to try the Schiit gear with the Omens. The Aegir was compared to the First Watt SIT3 in a Stereophile review and he called the Aegir about 80% of the SIT3 (paraphrasing). I don’t think you need the mono blocks though cause the Omens can get insanely loud with little effort. I heard the Omen DW’s at the most recent CapFest and Zu played them so loud, the walls of the humongous conference room were shaking. And then I asked Sean, “about how many watts you think are going into the speakers now?” He said probably 30. My phone SPL meter said 120 dB and I was 15 feet away. And it was still really clean sounding. You don’t need a lot of power to get those going.
I understand what a lot of the other responses you were getting, saying that the gear doesn’t care what genre you play. That’s true. But different genres vary in recording quality. And most metal is recorded piss poor unfortunately. So it does matter what you pair with your speakers. I say upgrade the gear but keep the speakers for now. I’ve gone through a lot of gear and it’s hard to beat the Omen DW’s for anywhere close to that money.