I’m no expert but agree with you that zReverb is fantastic.
For me the icing on the cake is the patina on the space it offers. The tuning pad combined with multiple, subtle reflections somehow invokes a real world reverberant space.
I’ve only heard Lexicon hardware reverbs pressed to CD, and not out of professional studio monitors, thus don’t have a full appreciation of it’s quality.
zReverb is not a device for gigantic tails and eddying delays. Instead it serves it’s audio source humbly with a live take effect.
It’s so nice, z03, to read a discerning ear mouthing praise. π