Replace my Berning ZH-270?

Just a brief correction to the previous post regarding silver wire.

Not all silver is hard or etchy just as not all copper is soft and rounded.

The actual determinants of cable "tone" are far more a factor of conductor purity, conductor geometry, and dielectric configuration/composition.

It is an old wives' tale that silver is grainy, hard, lean, or etchy.

Personally, I think you'd be making a big mistake in getting rid of the Berning for the reasons noted above. Perhaps you should consider changing to a speaker that is not so lean sounding and one that doesn't tend to get shrill in the top-end on various material. In addition, the BAM can wreak havoc with the signal and cause compatibility problems when paired with other components. Just my opinion, having formerly owned Merlins, paired with various amplification.
p.s. - I'm a Berning owner.

Audiofeil is absolutely correct, I use silver myself but the big BP does not recommend silver with his speakers. It takes careful selection of cables for these speakers, BP likes Cardas.

A note here on this, it's not silver or copper but how the cable is designed, shielding and how it's handled is an important part of a high bandwidth system

Agree with Bill - totally misunderstood stereotype that is on the same page of myth " Bible " with tube gear being too sweet , bass shy, colored etc.
Right applications for specific tools - as always.

Maybe Merlin should now be working on the " super-sonic-BAM", yeah, that would fix it all right?..... Please.

Your Joule pre is great, your Berning amp is great, your speakers are a 15 year work in progress that are just getting marginally better. Try another speaker before you frustrate yourself to insanity...