#Audio zoo s drivers#

The Omen DW has a separate tweeter, it handles high treble from 12kHz to 25kHz. That direct connection is at least partly responsible for the immediacy of the sound. The Omen DW's 10.3-inch driver goes from the deepest bass, 35Hz, to high treble, 12kHz, with no crossover network of resistors, capacitors, or inductors inline between that 10.3-inch driver and your amp. Most affordable two-way speakers in the Omen DW's price class feature 6- or 8-inch woofers that 'crossover' the sound from the woofer to the tweeter around 2 kHz that's in the low treble frequency range. The Omen DW looks like a two-way tower speaker, but it's configured in a radically different way. The 36-inch-tall speaker weighs 53 pounds. The Omen DWs sell for $999 per pair, $500 less than the Omen Standard.

#Audio zoo s drivers#

The traded-in drivers are cleaned, measured, and fully checked out and used in the Omen DW the cabinets and everything else about the speakers are brand new. Let's stop right there: Zu Audio is one of the rare speaker companies to offer upgrades in any form, but when they redesign a driver they offer the new, improved version to their customers.

That is, the DW drivers come from Zu customers who traded up to one of Zu's higher-end drivers. The Zu Audio Omen Standard and Omen Dirty Weekend (DW) are virtual twins, but with one very significant difference: the DW uses 'recycled' drivers.

It's been a few years since I wrote my last Zu Audio speaker review, but this time out I wanted to try their least expensive tower, and that's where things got interesting.