Of cousrse it's not what I did I just didn't get into switching details when I wrote it. In relality I had CD input set to Analog/Bypass and AUX input set to Coax1/Bypass (Coax coming from the player of course) and was switching between the inputs.

Another little detail I remember (forgot to write before) - I was trying Renaissanse Novella CD, and on the beginning of The Sisters track it was very clear that the Annie Haslam voice was overpowering everything with the 990, thus making the whole scene harsh. The Azur brought the piano, synthesizer and the guitar more to the front so everything became nice and smooth. The effect of this difference was quite amazing.

As far as I remember the low end sounded quite different with Azur too, but I was concentrating on the harshness at the time and ignored it.