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Not sure what you mean by "well-known speakers", but some people claim that speakers that don't use crossovers are special because they can carry emotion better than the speakers that have crossovers.

Despite tremendous technological improvements in integration of drivers in the last 10-15 years by the top speaker companies, an experienced listener will pick up immediately what a single driver can do that other types of speakers just can't match.

Caveat: only heard these at show conditions, so take with grains of salt: Comparing to other single driver speakers, the Cube speakers don't rock as well Zu Audio speakers, but do classical better. Compared to Voxativs, which are much more expensive, the Cube speakers may not be as resolving and not as warm (but warmth may be attributed to partnering equipment as much as to the speakers).

As always, listen for yourself!
 
I’d absolutely love to hear the Cube Audio speakers.
 
Boogieman said:
Caveat: only heard these at show conditions, so take with grains of salt: Comparing to other single driver speakers, the Cube speakers don't rock as well Zu Audio speakers, but do classical better. Compared to Voxativs, which are much more expensive, the Cube speakers may not be as resolving and not as warm (but warmth may be attributed to partnering equipment as much as to the speakers).

As always, listen for yourself!
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Which model did you hear ?
 
Paul said:
Nice. I would love to hear that driver with open baffle
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I've heard a couple different Cube drivers that way, sounded pretty good. Not too shouty and colored like many wide range drivers. Actually did a bit of design work on one for a friend. Of course, a high efficiency/strong motor driver like that will roll off quickly in an open baffle, so forget bass.
Cube driver alone Red trace, on relatively narrow baffle (around 30cm) for better (di)polar response. Sub bass duties the bottom of a Linkwitz LX521 (2x10 Seas) for the full bandwidth response (Blue). 30 degree off axis Orange shows the typical big cone roll off, mitigating the 10k peak on axis. Doesn't sound "bright" in typical rooms, decent treble actually.

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Devg said:
Which model did you hear ?
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Cube Audio Nenuphar, Zu Druid, and Voxativ 9.87. Amp-wise, they sound spectacular with Pass/ First Watt SIT and with SET/ low powered tubes. No bad choices, really.

And if you are just trying to get a taste of this type of design, ZU offers a 60 day money -back guarantee
 
Boogieman said:
Not sure what you mean by "well-known speakers", but some people claim that speakers that don't use crossovers are special because they can carry emotion better than the speakers that have crossovers.

Despite tremendous technological improvements in integration of drivers in the last 10-15 years by the top speaker companies, an experienced listener will pick up immediately what a single driver can do that other types of speakers just can't match.

Caveat: only heard these at show conditions, so take with grains of salt: Comparing to other single driver speakers, the Cube speakers don't rock as well Zu Audio speakers, but do classical better. Compared to Voxativs, which are much more expensive, the Cube speakers may not be as resolving and not as warm (but warmth may be attributed to partnering equipment as much as to the speakers).

As always, listen for yourself!
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Don’t most of the Zu speakers have separate tweeters with a crossover?
 
mep said:
Don’t most of the Zu speakers have separate tweeters with a crossover?
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Yes, they have a separate tweeter, but claim no crossover. Here's the link to their explanation : https://www.zuaudio.com/questions-l...se-crossovers-in-their-speakers?rq=crossovers. Regardless, my friend has a 10+ year-old Zu Druid driven by a whole 2 watts of flea power Yamamoto amp. It sounds of one piece and it really sounds excellent.

Anyways, it's really cool that Cube speakers have eliminated the need for a separate tweeter by using a larger driver.
 
Boogieman said:
Yes, they have a separate tweeter, but claim no crossover. Here's the link to their explanation : https://www.zuaudio.com/questions-l...se-crossovers-in-their-speakers?rq=crossovers. Regardless, my friend has a 10+ year-old Zu Druid driven by a whole 2 watts of flea power Yamamoto amp. It sounds of one piece and it really sounds excellent.

Anyways, it's really cool that Cube speakers have eliminated the need for a separate tweeter by using a larger driver.
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It says right on the Zu website that they use a crossover for the tweeter. "There is a high-pass network on the super-tweeter." You have to or otherwise the voice coil would become a fuse.
 
Thanks to both of you for explaining that.

As I mentioned before, regardless of the technical specifics, the speakers sound incredible.
 
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