A year ago I moved half way around the world and into my current house. As I’ve been settling in there have been several stereos around the house. My main listening room has a Hegel H360, Magnepan 3.7s and a pair of REL T5’s. Along the way I built a zkit with the 25th Ann. Mods and a pair of Lii f-15 open baffles. The zkit and the Lii have been in my shop, which is not the greatest acoustically (low ceiling, concrete floor, etc.). Meanwhile, lve been getting to know my main system (the Hegel/Maggie) intimately for a year. I would sometimes bring the zkit and Lii’s into that main room while doing remodeling, but mostly as a “jam” system, because, frankly, Maggie’s just don’t do that. They’re transparent, and holographic… but… they don’t jam.
So tonight for the first time I pushed the Hegel/Maggie system aside and introduced the zkit and lii’s into my main room for some critical… seriously… critical a/b comparisons with the other system. All I can say is wow.
Wow.
Wow.
Reflecting on building the Z-kit… it was a good experience, I learned a lot in my mistakes, my respect for Decware and Steve’s designs and recommendations. It was a good experience, the amp sounds killer, and realistically it has cost probably about the same as what Steve would have sold it to me for. I’m convinced the Decware p2p configuration sounds better but I’m not sure what the better trade is; the learning experience I got from building it or paying the price for the real McCoy and supporting Decware. Without going too far down that rabbit hole, I would just like to say the approx. $1k I spent building the Z kit and the $500 on the Lii OBs blows the f**king roof off the $10k I have wrapped up in the Hegel/Maggie/REL combo.
Thank you Decware.  [smiley=dankk2.gif]