Biwire oval 9's, single Zen Satori - surprised

Thanks for the various feedback. I read that the VR's should be bi-wired, Albert himself has a whole analysis on the VS website. I was very happy with the Satoris and Zen jumpers, they sounded better then anything else I have ever used in my system. With that in mind I saw the Oval 9's here at a decent price, I read they were supposed to be transparent, with slight emphasis on the bottom end. Being they were used, I assumed decent break in. I actually checked and re-checked my connections, but the mid's suffered. I've realized that cables are so incredibly system dependent its almost impossible to assume what the sound will be from system to system. I bought a separate Satori run, with bananas, I currently have spades. That will give me a true bi-wire opportunity.

I've never gotten anything special from bi-wire. Bi-amp yes, just not extra wire. Single wire to the HF posts and jump to to the LF posts.

I have the VR4SRmk2 and love the Satori Shotguns in my system.

Fz1jmp,

Shotguns are optimized for low and high frequencies (not identical) and marked accordingly. I had to install spades and discovered that wires inside are exactly the same. I doubt that there is any other difference.

Be careful if you terminate yourself because between whole bunch of solid insulated wires (about 10) one is stranded containing again at least 10 strands of very thin wire. Be sure to clean it and not to break. I crimped AQ spades with AQ crimper borrowed from local audio store and then soldered with 4% silver solder heating wire first to avoid thermal expansion of the spade that might release oxygen free connection.

I was not going to terminate the 2nd set of Satori's. My other set are terminated with spades, the new pair are terminated with bananas, so I'm just going to connect them using the banana plugs. Now thats not a probable is it? I will have banana plugs and spades connected at my amp end. I figure thats true separation.