Any thoughts on the CD "trimmer"

I'd suggest that all of this theorizing is not helping the original poster. Y'all should read the Audiodesksysteme website to get an accurate idea of what this system does.
A review was published in a British HiFi magazine recently that explains the process also, and the reviewer purchased one.
I have heard discs treated by this system, and it really does work. It does improve the sound, and CDs that sounded nasty/edgy sounded much better after treatment.

I use the "trimmer" for years and I would not want to miss the effect anymore this short procedure has on sound improvement. As said above: some CDs benefit more than others. And played on my Wadia 270 makes the difference bigger than played on my Sony 557.

We're still back to the issue that programming code and data are accurately delivered by CD binary code in CD players but if that code in the same format is delivering music, it becomes corrupted.

As for the Krell MD10, the thing has a clear plexiglass top! There is an old saying that the "poison is in the dose." That particular example strikes me as a victory of visual appearance over function. (And, BTW, halogen light power supplies are an excellent source of EMI/RFI.)
As for "ones/zeros are not digitally encoded, they are contained within an analog modulated carrier envelope..." I do not believe that is a technically correct description of the digital recording and storage process. Certainly there can be vast differences in the quality of AD and DA conversion (and subsequent preamplification for analog output) but that is a separate issue from whether the binary code is accurately extracted from a CD.

Mlsstl you can theorize as much as you like but the proof is in actually listening.It is not difficult to hear the changes in sound produced by using the Audio Desk Systeme. It is easily audible with any system.