Some good suggestions above, but I suggest you investigate another tack - modify your player.

As I've posted many times (apologies to those who are sick of reading it yet again) IMO the playing equipment, not the format, has been the cause of all the justified criticism of digital. The harshness, grittiness etc is a result of the mangling of those 0's & 1's long before they reach a DAC stage or an amplifier. Most of it is timing errors resulting in jitter etc but poor power regulation and other factors are involved. The old addage "Garbage In -> Garbage Out" applies with a vengeance. If the signal fed in is not as good as possible, all you can do is to filter and/or mask it thereafter - a rather futile and expensive exercise.

I've had all 7 players (two of them laserdisc and one a Meridian 800) modified here to great effect. I used to despise and dislike the sound from digital recording and clung faithfully to vinyl for nearly 2 decades but sold nearly all of it last year and am enjoying far superior sounding music from CDs & SACDs than I ever heard from vinyl.

This year I've gone a stage further and had a Benchmark DAC 1 extensively modified by Steve Nugent at Empitical Audio with even more spectacular results. No, it has not displaced the 861 as this remains the heart of the audio-video system here and is unsurpassed for surround sound. No, the modded Benchmark has supplemented the system and is the 2CH processor for CDs & LDs with the analog output fed back into the v861 for surround sound.

I've got a bit carried away here riding my hobby horse but modification might be something else worth considering. I have an essay on this topic somewhere on this board but lost after it was reorganised. However you can also find it at
http://www.audioasylum.com/audio/digital/messages/106559.html

This audio-video mania manifests itself in the never ending search for the holy audio-video grail. What we are content with today we can be disatisfied with tomorrow.

All the best in your quest.

John