How to improve?

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

have you compared the digital sources in your own system or at the dealer?

Greetings,

You may want to consider Modding, especially if you really like your current stuff.

I'm currently having my CEC TL51X transport and Musical Fidelity XDAC modded by RAM.

I'll be posting a endgame review soon...Happy Listenting

What I had as a wow experience is probably best explained by my set history. I started with surround. Lexicon + Arcam AV8/P7 with T&A Talis speakers + QED Genesis cabling. First I exchanged the speakers for the B&W with bi-amping the P7 (the B&W needs juice!). Then I changed to the JC-1's. Sounded even better. But.... I exchanged than the AV8 for the ARC Ref 3 + cardas cabling. What happend was that I created a situation where before I was listenig to stereo music but now I was able to move around the performing artist (like anne sofie von otter, maria cantates) complete new experience. But now it looks that the way around is more difficult, sometimes a little amount of "dust"has to be removed. I'm curious what to do next (ps the ref has now 800 hrs on the tubes so that should not be the issue).

What I have done till now is taking the lexicon under my arm and spend listening a lot of music at dealers comparing there prefered digital source in their system with the lexicon exchange as only variable. I was not very much impressed. Favorite music to compare, Von Otter with Handel Maria cantates (Archiv); Vivaldi's Maria Vergine vespers (Opus 111, SACD); Wagner orchestral works 1 , de Waart (exton, SACD);Kraus collection (Rounder records); Kathleen Battle and Wynton Marsalis duets (Sony classical);Perahia Bach Goldberg variations (Sony SACD);Holiday Lady in Satin (Columbia SACD) and Ella and Louis (Verve SACD)

have you listened to ARC Ref CD7 cd player? This may be what you need for a wow factor...and to remove the layer of dust.....although at a price.