I just purchased a Hegel Viking CD player. I am breaking it in and at about 100 hours. It is vocal forward and the trebel is not bright but to close for my comfort. Looking for ideas to tame it.
You have an excellent System. The Arcam 79 is/was a good player. The Hegel Mochican and Viking are quite a step up in presentation and sound. Give your player more time to break-in.
So it's not just a new CD player you're in an entirely new room? That brings up a lot of possibilities at play besides the CD player. Perhaps look at speaker positioning and/or some room treatments?
I have a Viking coming this week. For what it's worth, Hegel encourages using the balanced analogue XLR output to take advantage of the player's AKM chipset.
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