Lon, if your experience holds in my case, then I am in for a real treat. I installed the ZenStyx today, and they made an immediate difference in the system. My 15yo noticed it immediately. [Remember they are replacing cheap flat—but decent for the small HT speakers they were used on before—Monster cabling.] And, for the first time, I am starting to understand what Steve means by "late night, out of body listening experiences." With the ZenStyx, I can actually hear real live dynamics and detail even at low listening volumes. I put on the new
Hotel California SACD and had 5 thoroughly engaging channels of very sweet sound.
The nature of my layout required me to swap speaker cables between the two Toriis. One quad of ZenStyx is 20-feet long [for the rear channels], and that proved to be just barely long enough for the Torii that is more centered between those two. That causes the front channel Torii to be on the rack opposite the Ultra, which means I have to use the longer Audioquest Silver Reference ICs that I picked up at HCM [I believe as a result of
a link you posted]. Those are decent ICs, not quite what the Decware are, but also available in 4-meter lengths, and at the HCM price, that length is a bargain.