Acoustic Zen speaker Cables ..In general

It could just be the systems. My comparisons were done with pass labs aleph equipment and audio physic avanti-century speakers. These are very high detail/low distortion and are known good matches for nordost cabling. The aleph's have a sweet sounding midrage/treble & nordost cable just seems to bring out more of that.

I found that the spm speaker cable was a bit better than satori, but the quattro-fil i/c's were much better than az silver ref. I sold off my spm speaker cables and bought a long satori run. Mainly because I felt the small performance loss was worth the savings on a 5 meter set. I also like the idea of a $600 cable cossing a traffic area better than a $3000 cable (I do use foam sandwiches). Az should pay me a commission. Three people I know have gone to using satori's after hearing them in my system.

John-

What a coincidence most of my comparisons were done with Pass Aleph 2 amps and Silverline Sonata speakers. I also did compare them on my BAT VK150SE, Dunlavy 4 system as well. I had a few friends over when doing some comparing as well, and everyone agreed that the Satori was better than SPM and Silver Ref was better than Quattro Fil. I agree that the Nordost cables can initially sound more striking than AZ, but in extended listening I find that AZ is simply much more natural than Nordost, while at the same time passing much more of the ultra fine details in the recordings. I guess we have to just agree to disagree

They are quite system dependent compared to other cables I have used like the Analysis Plus.

In some systems they can sound really dark, while in some it can sound very neutral.

I understand why many people sell this cable off, its very sensitive to anciliary equipment.

I also noticed that you cannot use AZ cables all the way from the IC's to the speaker cable, it will be too dark sounding in my opinion.

I have combined the Satori with Silver Audio 4.0 and Silver digital cable to very good effect. Matching the components with the TG Audio cables PC 's also helped quite a bit.

Its quite a challenging cable but once you get the combos right, its fantastic!

using silver matrix II between arc cd-3 and cj premier 17ls excellent neutral sounding cable equal of the much more expensive and overpriced audioquest anaconmda

Has anyone ever compared the AZ Satori and Alpha-Core veracity MI-2 speaker cables?
Thanks for any comments.