Sbayne-
Yes, very thorough and thoughtful comments.
However, all those great attributes have not melted together into one very believable sound. I still know Im listening to a CD.
There are many who believe that the TRL players actually take near 750 hours to fully relax and settle in. Your sense of silver wire in the mix is likely accurate. I think they use some of their proprietary power cord wire to the IEC inputs and this is long break in stuff.
Curious as to the rest of your system/cables, etc. I found with the TRL 595 I had that it exposed some of the weaker areas in my integrated amp and speakers a bit more. For me, anyway, it kind of put my system components out of sync.
I ended up having TRL mod my integrated amp.
I eventually moved up to the SA14. As good as the 595 was, and I am sure the SA8260 is, the SA14 does take the next step to suspending disbelief even moreso.
After the SA14 broke in, I ended up moving up to the next level of ACI monitors.
Moral of story- send the damn thing back before you end up upgrading your whole stinking system :)
Just kidding-but it does get you working on the whole synergy and system blance thing.
Keep us posted.