Recommend a pair of speakers for my system

Hi More,
I am not very familiar with your setup, but for Increased resolution, it may be the Amp/Pre which may be the bottleneck...it definitely is not your source and may nt be the speakers as although a bit old the 5i's are known to be OK.

if possible try to borrow a Roksan/Rega/Musical Fidelity/Sugden or Audio analogue int amp and try it out to confirm the same before you upgrade your speakers ..

BTWI have heard the monitor 8's and did like the same...very Dynamic speakers capable of handling any music especiually with Warm sounding Amps
In fact I was very seriously thinking between that and the Klipsch..I went for the klipsch only as I could not audition the MA enough...

again i am really not familiar to your curren setup and the above is just a hunch !

hi more...I am familiar with your pre-amp/power amp setup and you got a good one. the c160 with e C270 is a very good combo.

What exactly is making you feel that the speakers are the weak link ? is it some chanracteristic in the sound perhaps ? a friends system ? Could be the cables you are using....I would personally avoid the missions. but then again it depends on individual taste.

try and put a finger to what you need more out of your system and maybe we will be able to help you better. You mentioned more resolution....but more in the bass ? mids ? highs ? more detail in which region ?

Tell me guys, is it OK to enclose the speaker cables inside a PVC conduit which would be inside the wall? And as my system is on one side, the distance to both the speakers is different. But I have taken both the speaker cable lengths the same and am coilling up one of them. Is that Ok?

Nothing wrong with a PVC conduit..
Nothing wrong with coiling in most systems but some systems..apparently could have RFI problems (As per theory !)..you could coil in in an S which apparently cancels this out again all this is theory and I have never experienced these. But keepig it off the ground helps hence the conduits would be good !

BTW, in case you want to change cables would that be easy ?

yeah...conduits are fine cheraz....you got you system finally ? good show...now hook it up and play it..

keeping the length same is a good idea....but do make sure there is no electrical wire running paralel to the speaker cables or interconnects.

Not Yet! Not Yet!
Only got my Cables. That itself has got me exited. Ha! Ha! He!

cheraz......whats keeping it now ? BTW what cables did you get ?

Transparent Musiclink interconnects and MusicWave Biwires. God Knows why Totem is delaying. It seems there is a 'Q' for the speakers and it is taking some more time. My cdp and amp should be with me by next week. I hope.