How is Wadia with fast dynamic music ?

Check out a McCormack UDP. All of the McCormack stuff that I've heard is very good for the price. This player may be just what you're looking for.

and true to the impact of the recording. I enjoy my 301.

Krell is Hard sounding and the will just make most Heavy metal annoying if you wanna good example of fast and heavy, fatigue is always the first word that comes to my mind, Wadia is far more deep and smooth, very in your face dynamic however, but My experiance is with the older true 16 bit machines, all newer 24/96's seem to carry some digital glare with them and this could be the issue with newer wadia's for all I know. Get a Wadia if you want the best Algorythm out there with the digimaster system and just have the analog stage upgraded. Also there are a few Metronome Players which are tube that are very nice on this site for around 1000.00, don't get caught in the hype.

Here is a good thread, and it is very recent on Audiogon very similar players, with auditioning in one spot, I still go Wadia.

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?ddgtl&1134471156&read&3&4&

Thank you Matrix, I will look at the Metronome.
While I don't listen to 'heavy metal' I suppose most rock would be the same in this respect.
Can you tell me which of the older Wadia's are 16 bit . I have been reading quite a bit about the 16 bit versus upsampling debate .