First, if your Zerius are anything like the Celius, then you will need to play em in for about 200 hours. NO JOKE! There are physical reasons for this, not some brain adjustment course as is sometimes the case.
You WILL need to be in the sweet spot to gain the best imaging and soundstaging from these, and most, speakers.
These are compared to electrostatics more for their speed, dynamcis and how they deal with transients, not so much how they image (which they do rather well).
Be sure to set them up properly, and if you do not know how room nodes affect the sound, then by all means educate yourself on this most important component (the room itself).
Some will argue that it is best to listen with you head as close to the rear wall as possible (no more than a foot or two); this way your brain will ignore the reflections as they are too close to the main sound wave.
Others prefer a Live-End Dead-End configuration, but that requires very deliberate set-up and usually involves numerous tools such as echo busters for absorption.
Make sure that you diffract the primary reflections (straight line between the angle from the tweeter to the side wall to you). This is very critical.
What is the size and shape of your room, and what were the speakers in the old system?
Finally, I have not heard of the Outlaw Receiver? Is this a low-power tube unit or SS? Link?
You WILL need to be in the sweet spot to gain the best imaging and soundstaging from these, and most, speakers.
These are compared to electrostatics more for their speed, dynamcis and how they deal with transients, not so much how they image (which they do rather well).
Be sure to set them up properly, and if you do not know how room nodes affect the sound, then by all means educate yourself on this most important component (the room itself).
Some will argue that it is best to listen with you head as close to the rear wall as possible (no more than a foot or two); this way your brain will ignore the reflections as they are too close to the main sound wave.
Others prefer a Live-End Dead-End configuration, but that requires very deliberate set-up and usually involves numerous tools such as echo busters for absorption.
Make sure that you diffract the primary reflections (straight line between the angle from the tweeter to the side wall to you). This is very critical.
What is the size and shape of your room, and what were the speakers in the old system?
Finally, I have not heard of the Outlaw Receiver? Is this a low-power tube unit or SS? Link?