I hope my observations don't repeat too much of what's been said before, if so please excuse me.
First off, your set up is very nice, balanced and produces very pleasing reproduction of all sorts of music (I've heard it so I know).
Now where to go next depends a lot upon direction of travel and final destination - ie what are you really looking for from your hifi? Are you interested in utterly faithful reproduction from the engineer's desk/ your music to have a heavier, more meaty and realistic tone and texture/ do you want ultra detailed and superb sound-staging?
You get my point - hifi is a lot like ice-cream and comes in many flavours, and just because some-one else likes rum n' raisin doesn't mean that's the only ice cream in town!
A great deal of hifi as a hobby involves that most of us work to a budget and therefore there's going to be compromises or choices to be made about what is the priority for you in how you want your music to sound.
If I dangerously assume that you like how your current system sounds in terms of tone and character, you may like a bit more in terms of dynamics and bass weight then you might want to make some relativity cautious choices (veering off can be expensive and disappointing!).
So yes I'd look at speaker cable that lets a bit more through (don't know what you've got?) at first. Going pre/ power would definitely be my next step and adding a power amp (X power?) to your 8vs2 would provide additional drive and dynamics (done this myself and ended up with a preamp and Mono X blocks). If you look on Cyrusunofficial there's plenty of threads on the difference between pre - power and biamping with Cyrus kit.
Lastly, the most obvious thing to do is upgrade your speakers to RS5's etc'. I only suggest the Rega because of my previous assumption and as yet I don't know what it is you're finally after in terms of sonic character otherwise I'd suggest something else. As I said, what you've got but more of it, with greater slam and depth is my working assumption. So there's no point denying physics - get some bigger speakers! (not always but broadly true..)
Good luck, come back and post how you've got on.
First off, your set up is very nice, balanced and produces very pleasing reproduction of all sorts of music (I've heard it so I know).
Now where to go next depends a lot upon direction of travel and final destination - ie what are you really looking for from your hifi? Are you interested in utterly faithful reproduction from the engineer's desk/ your music to have a heavier, more meaty and realistic tone and texture/ do you want ultra detailed and superb sound-staging?
You get my point - hifi is a lot like ice-cream and comes in many flavours, and just because some-one else likes rum n' raisin doesn't mean that's the only ice cream in town!
A great deal of hifi as a hobby involves that most of us work to a budget and therefore there's going to be compromises or choices to be made about what is the priority for you in how you want your music to sound.
If I dangerously assume that you like how your current system sounds in terms of tone and character, you may like a bit more in terms of dynamics and bass weight then you might want to make some relativity cautious choices (veering off can be expensive and disappointing!).
So yes I'd look at speaker cable that lets a bit more through (don't know what you've got?) at first. Going pre/ power would definitely be my next step and adding a power amp (X power?) to your 8vs2 would provide additional drive and dynamics (done this myself and ended up with a preamp and Mono X blocks). If you look on Cyrusunofficial there's plenty of threads on the difference between pre - power and biamping with Cyrus kit.
Lastly, the most obvious thing to do is upgrade your speakers to RS5's etc'. I only suggest the Rega because of my previous assumption and as yet I don't know what it is you're finally after in terms of sonic character otherwise I'd suggest something else. As I said, what you've got but more of it, with greater slam and depth is my working assumption. So there's no point denying physics - get some bigger speakers! (not always but broadly true..)
Good luck, come back and post how you've got on.
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