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Clear Day vs Acoustic Zen

As I mentioned in another thread, I am looking to make one or two upgrades to my system this year. Total budget is around $500 - 600. My current system is:
B&W CM10
Parasound A21
Cambridge Audio Azur 851D (preamp + DAC)
Cheap Audioquest wires (I think I paid around $50 for an 8 ft pair).

The two speaker cables that I've seen mentioned a lot here are Clear Day and Acoustic Zen Sartori. I almost pulled the plug on a pair of used AZ Sartori a week ago, but it was sold before I could make an offer.
There are other AZ Satoris on sale here at agon but they're all over 8 ft, which is not what I want.

However, I see that for the same $$$ for used AZs, I can get brand new Clear Day Double Shotguns.

Has anybody compared these two in their systems? Given that B&W is generally considered to be a tad bit on the bright side, I wonder if the silver in Clear Day might not be the best choice?
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arafiq OP
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Folks, I just want to give a quick update. While researching the Clear Day cables, I had exchanged a few emails with Paul (owner). I asked him how the cables might perform in my system. He told me that he was not comfortable making any recommendations because it was very system dependent.

This level of honesty and integrity is so rare in today's competitive business world. Paul could have easily told me whatever I wanted to hear. But he was very honest and forthcoming.

Amazing guy! I wish we had more people like Paul in the high end audio world (or the political arena for that matter) ... but let's not get ahead of ourselves here :)


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Paul will instead send you a pair of cables so that you may decide for yourself. The one recommendation he does make is to use the Single speaker cable for higher sensitivity/efficiency speakers, the Shotgun model for medium s/e speakers, and the Double Shotgun for lower s/e speakers.
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stringreen
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I use ClearDay double shotgun bi-wire.....couldn’t be more pleased.  Among the cables that were auditioned in my system...Cardas (many permutations) Nordost, Audioquest.Wireworld,Kimber ....and on and on...
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@bdp24  I purchased the double shotguns from another a'goner. But Paul was still nice enough to recommend the double shotguns for my speakers. I am purchasing jumpers from Paul though.

Since this is my first foray into the world of specialized cables, it'll be interesting. I'll post my impressions once things settle down.
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milpai
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arafiq,
I strongly the 4-wire jumpers. My speaker wire config is exactly like yours.
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