Can good speakers take edge off digital?

Wrong strategy!

Best tweak I did for my cd player: brass footers. The mapleshade variety - heavier the better. Completely took the 'glare' off of vocals and certain frequencies.

Toufu,
I own the active version of the Quad 11L. The speaker does many things very well, but there is a definite hot spot in the tweeter output. A hump from 5kHz to 10kHz gives many recordings an edginess that I can't tolerate- particularly with compressed, forward vocals (Lucinda Williams album "West" is a good example).
One thing that really did help, and was measurable improvement, was wool tweeter surround to reduce baffle diffraction.
Next week I'll be in a city where I can listen to more monitors and I am hoping to find the right speaker (maybe Dynaudio) even if I have to move away from active design.
Regards,
Charlie

I agree with Tholt.I have the first oppo 970.Before spending a lot of money try top and bottom vibration cheap tweaks.The biggest gain for my oppo is 3 m1 garrand ammo clips with full metal jacket 3006 ammo right on top of the CD tray,a new world,goes from a flat boring soundfield to making speakers disappear,edge gone.