Curious .. What is the compared price of your tt vs spkrs

Got it, Al. And completely agree, with both your posts. Though it perhaps needed saying when Linn first did (that information, once lost, could never be recovered, no matter the quality of downstream components), to say the source is therefore more important than any other link in the chain is obviously an over-simplification. I think it was Peter Moncrieff who, in his comparison of the Linn to the Oracle in IAR, mocked the idea by suggesting a system of a Linn, quality pre and power amps, connected to a pair of strings and tin cans for speakers! 

My entire analog rig [tt,tonearm and cartridge] is 63K...

Speakers:$250k retail...

So about 25% analog to speakers.

Azjake would you care to elaborate a little on your setup .. Just curious thats all .iI wasn’t try to start a linn anti linn battle , i was just curious what people were running comparatively .. Of course amp pre cd dac etc etc is part of the equation but i posted in the anolgue just to get some feedback 👍

Bdp24, no, certainly not on my part. And I should probably not have included the words "and therefore expensive" in the excerpt of the statement that I quoted from the earlier poster

I am the poster Al who wrote "therefore more expensive". 

Not being a subscriber to the Linn philosophy, I meant this in the context that the loudspeakers are more important than the source and therefore, most likely would be more expensive than the source.. 

This is certainly the case in my system as I stated a 38% vs. 62% difference in favor of my speakers. 

I am not implying that price automatically denotes sound quality.  Just giving my reasons for the allocation of funds in my system.  Others may be at an exact match of vinyl source to speakers and yet others may be polar opposite of mine.  And for those that are, I am sure that Mr. Tiefenbrun is smiling.

I'm guesstimating that if we include the phono preamp, my entire TT setup is pretty much what my speakers with speakers cables are priced at assuming MSRP. Bless the Maker that I paid nowhere near MSRP.