Zu Audio Druid MK VI_Price drop 4/27

Matched pair of Zu Druid 6 loudspeakers. Excellent condition.  Free Shipping CONUS.
$8200.00 shipped and insured UPS regular PP
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$7925.00 shipped and insured UPS PP Friends & Family

These are the most current Druid model to date. Color is Black Hole matte black and it is stunning. I just took delivery of these brand new sealed in the Zu factory packaging/boxes February 2024. They were manufactured in 2021 but the guy that ordered them bailed because of supply chain delays. They sat in the factory sealed/unopened packaging until I bought/received them. They have been used lightly in a no pet/non-smoking/no children environment for just over a month.

As amazing as they are in sound, construction, and aesthetics, I've had a major life priority shift and have to let them go. I don't think I've ever seen a loudspeaker built this well, they're a work of art, built to last 5 lifetimes, and they sound absolutely incredible. They are in the exact condition as when I unpacked them new just over a month ago. Ships in original ZU factory packaging/boxes and I will wrap them in industrial palate stretch wrap just as they were from the factory. In addition, I will be adding significant foam packing material and bubble wrap around the entire cabinet; way above/beyond the factory pack job. There is a faint mark on both cabinets on one side that must be related to the finishing process. You have to look in just the right light at just the right angle and even then it is extremely faint. It's just like a small area of slightly darker finish .You really really really have to be looking, just want full disclosure.
 

These sell for $12500.00 plus shipping from Zu.

From the Zu website description:

"Not just a rework but an all new platform.

The full-range driver, tweeter assembly, cabinet and construction methodology are all new from the ground up. Improvements over the tried-and-true Druid Five include resolution through the whole of the musical spectrum, with significantly better bass and deeper extension. Dynamics and nuance are more intense and yet relaxed, possessing that elusive at-ease quality in playback. Druid Six is capable of extraordinary power and grace, with grippingly coherent full-spectrum realism. Price is for a matched pair.

Drivers and cabinet are designed as a whole, the driver used as a part of the stressed system and not simply screwed to the baffle. Cabinet design and methods yield significant improvements in strength-to-weight and damping qualities—the wave mechanics of the structure including drivers. Cabinet construction pallet shifts from MDF-type to an engineered birch/maple/carbon/aluminum composite construction using 100% solids, infusion epoxy for layup and very large filleted internal edge and corner work. These materials and and techniques combine for serious improvements in system fidelity: lower noise, better power transfer… and a longer life! The sound produced is vivid, emotionally connective and relaxed."

Druid stands fifty inches [130cm] tall, seven inches [18 cm] deep, with a footprint of 12-3/4 inches [32.5 cm] square. It is both high efficiency [101 dB-SPL, 1W @ 1 m] and high power handling [200W] and features our new 11-1/4 inch [29 cm] full-range driver augmented by a Radian based tweeter to color in the harmonic structure and detail of the upper most treble. Internal cabling is our Event Mk.II loudspeaker cable."