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

Mostly unrelated to all of that, but having some relevance to the original question, I would add to what has been said the thought that for a given level of quality what a speaker can cost often tends to vary dramatically depending on its maximum volume capability (or more specifically, its ability to comfortably handle high volume dynamic peaks, such as are often found in well engineered minimally compressed recordings of classical symphonic music), and also depending on the deep bass extension the speaker can provide. And the extent to which those capabilities are necessary or can be compromised will of course vary greatly from listener to listener, which is one of the reasons why the ratio of speaker cost to front end cost tends to vary so much among different listeners.

First: value judgments or statements are not ''truth-functional''.

Second: we all think in the same way; from our premisses to

our conclusions or deduction. Different opinions means different

premisses not ''different thinking''. So one should make his premisses

explicite . My is as already mentioned the fact(?) that speakers

are the weakest link in the (system) chain. Consequently I spend

the most of my money for the speakers. The ''ratio'' is not exact

but in my case about 4x more than for my analogue front.

If the premiss is that anyone is free to decide for himself than

why we need any justification for our choice? That is to say

that mentioning our reasons is the same as mentioning our

premisses.