Audio Research is an excellent match with Sonus Faber. I own Elipsa SE Reds {the baby strads} and use an Audio Research Ref 110 to drive them. The sound is exquisite. My choice for a solid state amp would probably be a Pass 30.8.
I had a Jolida 100 CD player in my system many years ago when my Theta Jade died. Granted it had the original tubes but I was not very impressed at the time. I thought the Jolida DVD player with the computer drive made a much better sounding transport. A different CD player might have a huge impact on the sound.