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Harsh Transport

In a second system I have a Denon dm380 cd changer as a transport with a Bel Canto 2 dac doing the D A duties. Lately the music has been sounding harsh and dull at certain points. High frequencies especially are starting to sound really strained. Is it the Denon? I'd like to keep a changer in this system. Are there better changers to use as a transport. This set up sounded very good for a long time,then all of a sudden this. Wire I'm using is Shuntata Aries rca's and Stereovox digital. This does not happen with any other disk players I have. Thanks for the help.
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coach-duplicate-0 OP
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I have a dedicated 20 amp line for the system and it does sound better at night. I'm trying different IC's to see if I can cure the problem. This doesn't happen on every disk and the Shunyata Aries sound so good. The power cord on the dac is a Zu Cable Birth by the way.
coach-duplicate-0 OP
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Audphile 1 thanks for the feedback. I have since taken the Stereovox cable out of the mix and put it somewhere else. I replaced it with a digital cable I had laying around from Signal Cable. It really smoothed things out. The Stereovox seems to be a tad bright in system. But like I said ,I do want to keep a changer in the rack. Any Ideas on that?
coach-duplicate-0 OP
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Well Guy's it would seem that my problem with the sound of my CDP was the fault of one of my son's.(Both grown men). The youngest one brought one of his girls over to watch dads HT. While showing off to said strumpet he went into the on screen menu and started messing around (Anthem avm30)He dumped a lot of extra signal into the cd inputs causing the distortion. He changed a few other things too. Everything is back to what it should be, but he has been banned from the Home Theater room. His mom thinks I'm being to rough on her little darling. Kid's, geez.
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