Thanks Bradz, I really appreciate your kind words! It looks like you're putting together a great setup, that Cary is a nice piece.
Actually, my goal when ordering was to swap out the AP9s for the Auditions first and compare just speaker cables, but that never happened. I had a single run pair of AP9s for sale on Audiogon and was using a biwired pair while waiting for the Virtual Dynamics to arrive. A fellow Audiogoner whom I dealt with before asked me if I had a biwired set available. I ended up selling both sets before the Auditions arrived so I couldn't make a direct comparison, and I didn't even have music for three weeks! However, once the Auditions arrived I did swap in only the speaker cables for a distant memory comparison, and my impression was that the Virtual Dynamics were both more resolving and smoother than the AP9s. This also happened two months ago, so I know that there's very little reliability here.
You might want to try putting the Power 3 on your amp for faster burn-in after you've had an inital listening session with it on your Cary of course. Hopefully, you'll end up liking it as much as a lot of us do. Good luck and let us know how it works out.