Getting a musical sounding baseline is much more difficult with digital and SS gear.
The pioneer transport (I once owned it), is vibration prone, even when you are spinning only the little platter in the middle.
Are you confident in the quality of your DAC? I am not personally familiar with it, however, getting musical with digital for me meant moving up to 16 and ultimately to 24 bit DACs.
Beyond lousy digital playback, I generally associate compression with amplifier limitations. I have heard some pretty sterile sounding, fatiguing and expensive amplifiers in my day.
If you bought your speakers from a dealer, have you considered asking him to let you swap your electronics into his system?
The pioneer transport (I once owned it), is vibration prone, even when you are spinning only the little platter in the middle.
Are you confident in the quality of your DAC? I am not personally familiar with it, however, getting musical with digital for me meant moving up to 16 and ultimately to 24 bit DACs.
Beyond lousy digital playback, I generally associate compression with amplifier limitations. I have heard some pretty sterile sounding, fatiguing and expensive amplifiers in my day.
If you bought your speakers from a dealer, have you considered asking him to let you swap your electronics into his system?