sounstage too big bad thing

thanks, Mapman' tried repositioning my chair back 3 feet, and didn't help, may be as you said need to get used to the sound,
don't know how long it will take, but hearing instruments sound coming at you like suspended over your head don't think is a natural phenomenon that happens in real life music events :

Hmm, soundstage should be mostly in front of you, not over your head. You have some interesting but perhaps unnatural things going on, perhaps due to room acoustics?

Synergy is everything. Not all good pieces work well in every room to every ones taste. If you don't like what your hearing and cannot tame it otherwise then you should definitely make a change or two again until things sound right.

Two things I would check; make sure the speakers are firing at the same point by using a digital level on the sides and back of the enclosures and on top of a board spenning the tops of the boxes to check that their height is exact. Next I would check the isolation of the Quicksilver amps ( they may need better isolation to extract as much clarity as possible) then I'd check the pre.
It is very possible the new cable has exposed something in your system and I would pursue this first before changing the cable.

Almost forgot, the cable may be showing that you need to reduce isolation or change the material.

I agree with Sounds_real_audio and Sns. Distance between speakers and toe-in worked for me. I had a similar issue after upgrading my preamp. In a small room, my chair was against the wall (couldn't be moved further away). Moving the speakers farther from the chair (closer to the front wall) would reduce the wonderful SS depth I had and just couldn't part with.

I experimented by moving the speakers further apart until the SS width cleared up the "congestion" that the enlarged SS created. It still lacked focus. Changing the toe-in gave me the focus. Speaker separation and toe-in interact with my room, so I had to go back and forth several times.

Once compensated for, the increased SS was much better than what I had before. More detail and life-size images.

Relax, have a homebrew and listen to some Marshall Tucker Band...