How to improve?

What is this 'wow' factor you are looking for? What exactly do you feel is missing from your present system sonically speaking? Have you optomized room/speaker interface?

FWIW, my last exposure to the 'WOW factor' occurred this spring when I connected a new Wadia CDP direct to an old tube amp which I had in the closet. WOW! Obviously for me the wow factor only occurred when I went outside of my 'box' and examined some unlikely possibilities.

You may hate this, and I know its all about my tastes, but since you asked, when I look at your equipment I think, ah good stuff, but probably cool and clinical in tone, very detailed but not warm and life like.

IMHO, of course.

Try to audition a MIMITISM cd player - this can just be that WOW factor that you have been looking for...

Cables can sometimes be the thing to replace and lift the veil to a whole new world - check them out sometime aswell.

Also - try to go the VINYL track... this can be the experience that you unconciously have been searching for!

Kind regards,
Dewald Visser

your system is there already....the wow comes in spurts...just like any happiness. go out and buy some new music.