The treble is 'steely' and yet the tone is good... OK.

what if I said "the reproduction of timbre seems good with the exception of a
steely ring in the treble which I hope to remove by a better PSU, non
switchmode."?

the rest of the CDROM wont have been designed with any care wrt noise on the
audio outs.

I'm reasoning that if the tonal reproduction is good (as above) then the player
must be doing something right, and indeed better than my Pioneer CDP which is
my current alternative.

And also bolt the mech down onto a really chunky slab of alu. (like
the Flat Fish if you've seen one)
What makes you think that will make any difference?

I'm working on the assumption that the designer of the Flat Fish, who I talked
to at the Heathrow show, has a good reason for bolting his mech down to a solid
slab of alu. Plus others have suggested it, plus if you look at Levinson gear
which ain't shabby, it's all built with substantial alu extrusions. Plus I'm
guessing that in the inverse side of it, the flimsy pressed steel chassis
)which you can bend through at least a cm) is not doing much to improve the
sound of the Pioneer. Plus by putting different damping materials on the
Pioneer base it seems to alter the tonality so I'm working on the theory that
resonances in the structure of CDPs affect the digital output. None of this may
be 'proof' but it all adds up to a lot of probability, and enough to warrant a
build.








=== Andy Evans ===
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