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

well this gets into another issue but I agree about vinyl.  I didn't set out to be a vinyl addict as a lifestyle choice or a philosophical stance. It doesn't matter to me in the end if analog or digital is better, and I'm sure that in the long run digital will improve vastly (already is). 

But that said, I find vinyl and digital to be very different.  Digital sounds nice to me but artificial, like a carefully manicured golf course that doesn't really look like old Scotland after all.  Vinyl records - a good one, clean and well recorded - makes me snap to and listen, as if the music is being performed for the first time.  Much as I try, I can't explain it.  But it's magical.  

as for the bit about how you start, what's most important in a system, what part should cost as much as what other part, etc etc - I don't really see why there's a hard and fast rule.  What matters (to me) is the discovery, the process of learning to hear and train your ears, and how to buy stuff without ruining your finances.  No two people will, or should, do it in the same way. no? 

Jolly 👍I agree .. I was just curious no more no less thanks for your imput 

Yeah, well said.

Dear @jollytinker : """ But that said, I find vinyl and digital to be very different.  Digital sounds nice to me but artificial ............. Vinyl records - a good one, clean and well recorded - makes me snap to and listen, as if the music is being performed for the first time. ""

Some way or the other both recorded medium are " artificial " in the sense that is not live MUSIC.

Both medium are imperfect ones and both with several kind of every kind of distortions through the recording and playback overall process that at the same time puts many limitations, either, to the digital or analog/LP medium.

Those each one medium limitations/distortions are the ones that makes the differences we listen through.

Today digital medium almost has no limitations/distortions or are severely lower than in the LP medium and perhaps the digital real limitation is our quality performance level in the home audio system.
That " artificial " that you name it is exactly what I'm saying and it's not " artrificial " sound but truer reproduced sound to the recording.
What we are hearing through the best in analog medium are not only some kind of diferent ( many of them ) sound but its very high kind of distortions and limitations against the digital medium that's  " years a head " on that: truer to the recording.

Many of us are accustomed ( for many years. ) to those very high analog distortions/limitations and we are accustomed to " live " away from what was take it by the recording microphones and we can't do nothing about other that try to mantain the distortions generated at each link in the home audio system link at minimum a very hard task that needs high knowledge levels to do it.

Anyway, we all in this forum are because first than all because we are MUSIC lovers. I hope all of us ???


Regards and enjoy the music,
R.

We can, given a great room and a good signal chain, get excellent performance out of a particular speaker not costing an arm and a leg. The speakers need to be good though, but a great chain can make some not so pricey speakers perform well. To few music lovers fail to optimize the room.
There is really no right balance per se. I'm at 120 %, Trans Fi Linear arm, Salvation TT, vintage Fidelity Research Cart and BAT VK P10SE running Zu Def 4's. All tube, dynamics, bass, warmth, tone-did I say dynamics? The reason there is no right answer is that synergy can be found for each of us at different price points for components.
Whats really enjoyable about this thread is seeing how so many music lovers go about their process and how important it is. Wouldn't most on here like to sample most of the systems mentioned here. We could all learn quite a bit.