I owned the same model for about a year. Mine sounded quite nice with a B&K ST140, which is about 100 or 105 wpc. There was a MAJOR improvement when I upgraded to Odyssey Statos Extreme Monoblocks, which are at LEAST 200 watts each, but probably more like 300, according to Klaus. Also, the Extremes have a huge amount of capacitance, 180,000 micro-farads EACH, which translates into a lot of current delivery. This is all relevant because these speakers DO love the extra power and current delivery, even though they're rated at ~91 dB efficiency.
You've probably already figured this out, but it's a mistake I made when I first switched to bi-wire speaker cables: Don't forget to remove the little jumper connectors between the two sets of loudspeaker binding posts when bi-wiring. I did NOT know about them and just hooked up the Canare bi-wired speaker cables in (what I thought was) a passive bi-wire configuration. (I should have figured it out, because how else could the speakers operate correctly if a conventional speaker cable was connected to only one of the two sets of binding posts?)
So I hooked the Canare biwires into both sets of binding posts, and I was straining to hear a difference, but wasn't really sure that I could. THEN a while later (days, weeks?) I saw the little brass bridges connecting the two sets of binding posts on the back of the speakers, and took them OFF. At that point the speakers were TRULY bi-wired (passively), and THEN there was a noticeable improvement in soundstaging. Kind of embarrassing, but that's what happened to me, and that's how I discovered the little brass colored jumper bridges. In my defense, they're pretty darn inconspicuous just sitting back there under the binding posts.......Oh well.
-Bill
You've probably already figured this out, but it's a mistake I made when I first switched to bi-wire speaker cables: Don't forget to remove the little jumper connectors between the two sets of loudspeaker binding posts when bi-wiring. I did NOT know about them and just hooked up the Canare bi-wired speaker cables in (what I thought was) a passive bi-wire configuration. (I should have figured it out, because how else could the speakers operate correctly if a conventional speaker cable was connected to only one of the two sets of binding posts?)
So I hooked the Canare biwires into both sets of binding posts, and I was straining to hear a difference, but wasn't really sure that I could. THEN a while later (days, weeks?) I saw the little brass bridges connecting the two sets of binding posts on the back of the speakers, and took them OFF. At that point the speakers were TRULY bi-wired (passively), and THEN there was a noticeable improvement in soundstaging. Kind of embarrassing, but that's what happened to me, and that's how I discovered the little brass colored jumper bridges. In my defense, they're pretty darn inconspicuous just sitting back there under the binding posts.......Oh well.
-Bill