Zu Audio's opening night party at HE 2006
5 pairs of modified Zu Audio ‘Druid’ loudspeakers. Filled the room up completely with sound and vibes.
I like techno music (and it various offshoots that some people are insistant sound way different from each other). A lot.
So I thought this was great fun. I only got to spend an hour or so here, and Neli was off trying to get into trouble and drinking too much Saki 🙂
The room was hard to estimate, but at least 100 feet (30 meters) square.
If you like the Zu speaker sound you would have loved this event. In absolute terms, the bass was not the tight, tight bass usually associated with techno, there being an overhang and perhaps some resonance. There was also a little too much energy at a thin band in the upper mids – which hardly ever called attention to itself.
At around 11:30 the music started to loosen up and get into my head like it is supposed to – perhaps DJ Ming getting used to the fact a lot of the showgoers seemed to be at the Dodgers game or somethin’ – or maybe these things just don’t get going until after this fogey goes to bed, the show lasted until 2:00am
Hi Mike,
The ZU party sounds like it was a whole lot of fun and like you I am very fond of “techno” music having spent a good deal of my early 20’s in Sydney’s best underground dance clubs. Luckily, at 30 years of age, my hearing is still in tact and I am now able to enjoy the best of jazz, classical, vocals and everything in between. BTW, I am a ZU Definition Mk1.5 owner. The speakers in the picture look more like Druids than Definitions with a single wideband driver per cabinet. Very interesting.
All the best,
Aaron
Thanks, Aaron. They do indeed look more like Druids 🙂
Yeah, the show (what I got to see of it) was a blast. It was great of ZU to put it on for us and amazing that they would even try to do something so audacious.
Take care,
Mike.
The party does sound like fun. Mike and Neli probably know pretty well that I enjoy electronic music quite a bit. I was surfing around the other day looking for new and interesting music, and I came across a site that (finally) gave me a decent understanding of the various genres (and sub-genres, and sub-sub-genres) within electronic music. It’s even got samples of each type, so you can get a pretty good idea what’s what. The site is http://www.di.fm/edmguide/edmguide.html . Of course, I read through the guide on a computer with no sound, so I can’t say much about the samples, or their quality. I’m going to have to go back through it so I really get what’s what.