Introducing Dirty Weekend Six
Dirty Weekend Six is a complete platform revamp over the discontinued Omen Dirty Weekend, only the size and famous good looks and tone remain. DW6 is a healthy slice of the fidelity and precision of Union 6 drenched in the warm wet and full tones of Omen. Redesigned from the ground up to satisfy, with noticeably improved resolution, bass through treble, with deeper bass extension and smoother everywhere, keeping that easy going and always likable charm.
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Dirty Weekend Six is handsome, efficient, broad-bandwidth, has smooth off-axis transition, serves up huge stereo, is rugged… a loudspeaker that responds to your music with agility, precise timing and rich tone. Hear deeply into your music without ruthlessly exposing those poor-quality recordings or that amp you own that is not quite as amazing as a Zu Dirty Weekend.
Dirty Weekend Six taps the work done for our Series Six loudspeakers, completely leveraging the Union Six’s more functional and innovative cabinet and internal acoustic design which really improves the performance over the dead Omen Dirty Weekend. For more about what is going on with the cabinet we refer you to the Union Six page, but know that in this design the slightly fiddly floor gap tuning is gone as we are able to put the exit interface out the back—and yet you can place DW6 as close as two inches from the wall behind it. Implementation of this new cabinet complex dovetails nicely with our warm and rich toned Zu260-ND 10” [26.2 cm] full-range driver in ways that impress even us. DW6 produces deeper bass, with more bass detail thanks to the new cabinet design. It has improved midrange clarity, due in large part to the new cabinet which reduces external and internal noise, and increases treble and overall transparency and transient resolution—to varying degrees depending on the upgrade package. For those details please see the DW6 page.
One thing that did not change was above mentioned 260 full-range driver, with its less intense, undercut magnet system giving it that characteristic smooth yet expressive sound. Another unchanged item is the super tweeter which extends the high frequency response to 22k Hz—acoustic cross over point between FRD and tweeter also remains at 12k Hz. Having the vast majority of the sound field (90%) emanating from the full-range driver makes for a very cohesive and unified wavefront.
We have also stepped up the finish level over Omen DW. Walnut and hickory are done to a finer/flatter surface finish, with interstage fine sanding between top coats, producing a deeper, more crafted looking wood finish. Painted finishes are also cut to a flatter surface and also feature interstage sanding between coats—results resemble monolithic fine honed stone. Rear-exit port is trimmed in felt, and the bottom is prepped, sanded and finally finished in black epoxy composite.
Long live the Dirty Weekend 6!