Tickfight,
In my opinion, $2K will not get you what you want. Large scale orchestra music has sounded congested with every CD player I've owned or heard under maybe $3-4K used. That includes the RA Opus 21, which I found to lack weight in our system. Your best bet may be to save for a higher-end, non-tubed player--Naim, Wadia, Ayre--only because many of the tube players fail at the high frequency separation during complex music passages because of an over-emphasized midrange. The Audio Aero Capitole MKII & the APL modded Denon 3910 are two tubed players that meet your requests, but they are at least twice your $2K budget.
Another thing you might try is a good pair of silver IC's. In our SET/horn system, I found every copper IC to blur the highs. Silver will give you (for lack of a better term) a more balanced frequency disbursement in your system. I would also experiment with as open-sounding PC as you can find for your source...Electraglide, DCCA, for example.
Finally, you have great amps & great speakers. I happen to think some cabling changes will help you to get closer to what you're after. But in the end, you will want to move to a source that is commensurate with the rest of your components.
Good luck!
In my opinion, $2K will not get you what you want. Large scale orchestra music has sounded congested with every CD player I've owned or heard under maybe $3-4K used. That includes the RA Opus 21, which I found to lack weight in our system. Your best bet may be to save for a higher-end, non-tubed player--Naim, Wadia, Ayre--only because many of the tube players fail at the high frequency separation during complex music passages because of an over-emphasized midrange. The Audio Aero Capitole MKII & the APL modded Denon 3910 are two tubed players that meet your requests, but they are at least twice your $2K budget.
Another thing you might try is a good pair of silver IC's. In our SET/horn system, I found every copper IC to blur the highs. Silver will give you (for lack of a better term) a more balanced frequency disbursement in your system. I would also experiment with as open-sounding PC as you can find for your source...Electraglide, DCCA, for example.
Finally, you have great amps & great speakers. I happen to think some cabling changes will help you to get closer to what you're after. But in the end, you will want to move to a source that is commensurate with the rest of your components.
Good luck!