Sony XA777ES plus Ack Dack?


I recently moved into a new house with a larger room for my system and have been attempting to eliminate the brightness I would associate with the room. I have bass panels, homemade room lenses, corner traps, etc that should alleviate the room anomolies, but still it seems to be edgy at times especially with CD source material not up to current standards. To me it sounds like the Ack Dack is a very anologue sounding Dac and may alleviate the brightness I'm hearing, but I'm wondering about using a $500 Dac with a $3,000 CD player. Will the Dac sound better than the Sony does by itself, or would I be better off just keeping the Sony. I do like SACD, so I would keep it irregardless. The rest of my system is B&W 801 S3, Bel Canto EV04, Melos Sha Gold Preamp, PS Audio P 300, Jena Lab Symphony & Penta Helix IC's, PS Audio Statement Biwire Sp cables and PS Audio Lab and Mini Lab cables. Lots of isolation devices also.
Finally, I never had any brightness problem in my old room, and it was only 12 x 14. The new room is 18 x 30 with higher ceilings. I'm not interested in changing anything but the digital back end. Maybe just adding the Ack Dack and using it on older, less than great sounding CD's would do the trick? Thoughts? Suggestions? Thanks.
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Thanks for the advice on the amp, but it's hardly breaking a sweat. It doesn't even get worked hard when it isn't in the bridged mode, so the amp would not be the problem, but thanks for the feedback. Mark.
Just a thought, but do you have any coupling/decoupling or resonance damping thingies under the Sony? I have the full-bore Mapleshade setup under mine (brass cones/maple block/isoblocks) and have lately been experimenting successfully with ... superballs. A friend has found these very helpful in reducing glare and brightness. Just put the superballs in Vibrapods or those carpet-protecting rubber/plastic things that go under furniture -- anything that will keep the superballs from rolling around. Sounds crazy, I know, but it's cheap and may be worth a try. Dave
Dave

Yes, I have all the cones and pucks and stuff :-) I have the Mapleshade setup under my preamp (w the 4" thick slab of maple) and under my amp I have Walker pucks with Mapleshade points. Under the CD I have those Final Lab Daruma which seem pretty good. Last night I put the casters back on my speakers (had Mapleshade cones under) and moved the speakers out some more from the back wall. This seems to have helped a great deal. I will keep trying different positions until I have it right. Thanks for the suggestions, they sure were possible causes, but I think I just have a difficult room, but eventually I will conquer it. Mark