With Denali 6000t Slight Loss of Dynamics?

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Doing an in home demo with a 6000t. Very impressive how it cleans up the music top to bottom. I like it a lot. The downside, I’m absolutely losing some dynamics. I started with just my preamp (VAC) connected to bank 2 and my small McIntosh amp in the HC bank. Putting the amp back to the wall helped some but not completely and of course I lose some of the Denali magic.

Has anyone else experienced this? I’m going to try moving my preamp to the HC bank next. As a FYI I’m using an Alpha HC cord from wall to Denali.