Turntable versus tonearm versus cartridge: which is MOST important?

Luthuania you say. Where Lex Luthor lives? ;)

Cartridges wear out. Tables and arms don't. Do the arithmetic.

I have a 12" Cocobolo with Firewire and a 10.5" Ebony with Firewire. 
My 12" is paired up with my heavily modded TD124 and my 10.5 is on my modded 301. You can see pics in my profile 

''The terror of grammar''? Each comparison imply relational 
context:  ''x is better, larger, etc, than y'', But the grammar
force you to put this relation in ''x is P'' grammar form . That
is  ascribing some property to the object x. We don't say 
''Peter is bigger than than Gorge'' but ''Peter is big'' and
'' Gorge is small''. This way  we get ''big Greek Populos''
loosing his ''property big'' in, say , Holland in which he become
'' small''  because the  Dutch are the longest people in the world.
Such ''riddles '' of course also apply to analogue comparisons
between components. 

Luthuania you say. Where Lex Luthor lives? ;)

Not exactly, Lithuania is not far from Russia