Tips for warming up Rotel + B&W system?

I still say you may want to give the Dakiom Feedback Stabilizers a shot. You can return them if they don't work. If you decide that you want to improve your digital front end, then perhaps it would be reasonable to consider a high end dac.

tvad, good suggestion! We can all come and play, can't we?

Goatwus, I'm not at all convinced that B&W 703's are "bad gear". I may yet arrive at such an opinion, but I heard a pair of 804's with classe SS amplification that sounded very rich and musical-- I just wasn't contemplating spending $10,000. at that time. The salesman I'm working with insists the 804 is not an inherently richer (or "less-bright", for you folks who don't like B&W) speaker than the 703, so I'm inclined to believe the Rotel amp and perhaps, as DR. Lou suggests, the Rotel cd player is/are to blame. Unfortunately, Sacramento CA is not blessed with many high-end audio dealers. Most folks around here don't seem to care about audio unless it's coming outta their television, so consequently, dealers sell "home theater" increasingly, while two channel audio has been pushed further and further into the background. I'm going to demo some classe amplification next. Anyway, thanks for the input!

StuartK,It is possible that one of your speakers is out of phase.This would cause a lightweight bright sound.Even if they are wired up correctly there is a chance that one or more elements are incorrectly connected.Most obvious would be one of the woofers.You should check that all the drivers are wired the same.This entails unscrewing them and looking at the connections.These should be colour coded.
I have come across two pairs of speakers that were factory wired out of phase.
A quick way to check this would also be to reverse the polarity on one of the speakers and see if it sounds better.
Your Rotel CD player has a rolled off treble so this is not likely the cause.

Jt