CD rethink time?

I've recently bought the newly remastered versions of 'Faith' Pornography' and 'Seventeen Seconds' by the Cure and they sound vastly superior to the orignal CD's I bought in the eighties.

 

The consensus here and over at Cyrusunofficial seems to be that I have a slightly bright CD player feeding a slightly bright amp into metal dome tweeters via some pretty nasty interconnects and speaker cables! I'm working on the latter first. I'm looking forward to trying out some of Zanash's Type 1 and AuAg interconnects. I've already ditched the SA and 'upgraded' to 9A twin and earth - which has given me a significant bass boost (plus the anticipated midrange colouration slight loss of detail tradeoff - but at £7 a roll....). This is only a stopgap, but at least CD is vaguely listenable again....even the Jesus Lizard, who suffered appallingly at the hands of QED!

Thanks for the input

 

It will be cool if you solve your problems by switching the cables. Van damme speaker cable from maplin is good and cheap at £2.99/metre for the 2.5mm csa. Don't be putoff by its low price and low hifi source. It easily embarrasses some audiophool cable. If you can solder you can always make a very nice solid silver IC from maplin as well. 1 Metre of shark cable is £20. I have a set on the phono to pre that i could lend you if you wanted to try before you buy/make.