Speltz/Atma-sphere & Merlins

with the Speltz you can increase the impedance to your heats desire and things will tighten up as you go however there is a sweet spot where you do not want to go higher as the sound becomes dry and too lean, you can definetly ruin the sound with too high an impedance. Also you are near the 'sweet spot' impedance of 12 - 14 ohms according to some of the posts on his website and in my own experience and you will retain the sound of his wire instead of your current wire - weather you will like that part of it or not remains to be seen.

Thank you for your responses. Sounds like it has its place, but not with my speakers.

If the ZERO is not loaded properly it will ring (adding harshness and obscuring detail) like any other inductive device. Ideally the speaker load should be 4,3 or 2 ohms, and if loaded that way the input will be 16 ohms. Other combinations are possible, but *in general* the ZERO is usually not be particularly helpful on a speaker that is already 6-8 ohms.

IMO you are far better off trying different speaker cables on the Merlins rather than ZEROs. If you had Magnaplanars it would be an entirely different story!

Philjolet when you are referring to the sound of the speltz wire vs your own were you referring to using the nude transformers or when using the box. I thought using the box would more likely retain the sound of your wire as long as your wire was used between the amps/box/speakers.

I had the nude transformer model instead of my normal wire sorry for any misinformation...