CD Player Recommendations 5-8k range please help

I think Audphile1 has an excellent thought. the ML is a good CD player. Before you do anything else, especially if you have money, is take the ML to it's limits.

1. where is your CD player? a big upgrade to try is to get three AudioPoints and spike that baby and see if it opens up the sound. damping often closes down the sound. if the AudoPoints help, a Sistrum stand will sound even better. www.AudioPoints.com

2. replace the fuse with a $29.00 German HiFI Tuning fuse from The Cable Company. call 1-800-fat-wyre and ask for John Pharo. www.fatwyre.com

3. replace the power cord. I've found the $1000.00 power cord from Basis (the turntable people) works the best in my set up for power cords under $1000.00. Galen Carol has an audition cord that you can try, or again the Cable Company has a library and John Pharo is really knowledgeable. www.gcaudio.com or www.fatwyre.com

4. replace the interconnects. again The Cable Company, their library and John Pharo. also, Steve Herbelin has a very nice set of interconnects that John Pharo personally recommended to him because the company is too new for The Cable Company to carry yet, but he uses them and after I auditioned them, I bought two pairs. they're silver and gold, like the Crystal Cables and Siltechs, but only $585.00 a pair.

I'd call John Pharo at The Cable Company and just talk to him, their audition library is huge, so you can try cable after cable until you think you're swimming in spaghetti.

Remember that these upgrades don't just affect your CD player, but what you learn will upgrade your whole system.

Chuck

Not true if you buy smart and buy used.

Tvad, valid point.

But hear me out, with the current cabling in that system, Levinson/B&W combo's full potential is not realized. I personally think that Levinson is a really fine player and given the context of the system, there should be synergy. The interconnects I am talking about should run around $800 tops for both pairs, the Silver RefII and Matrix RefII. They could easily be sold if the improvement is subtle, although I am willing to bet that they will take the system to a completely new level. Now once that is done, please go ahead and buy another CD player.

and this, BTW, is a bold statement to make.

A used Modwright Sony 999ES with the new tube rectified power supply would run around $2000 used, and it would leave the Levinson far behind.

Chuck - what's the name of the company whose cable you're referring to? Thanks