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

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.

Agreed ...wow how cool would that be . As for the room acoustic i spent most of my life dealing with acoustics . They can be deal breakers i have read people write about placement and this and that making little difference . Well from my experience as a sound engineer its makes one hellava difference . As i said a great acoustical space can make a modest system sound great . Volume is what we tend to pay for or the ability to fill large spaces . For instance i have acoustic zen adagios ( which are killer)  5k msrp in a 13x 16 x10 something like that . Mr lee says there is no reason to upgrade to his next spkrs 14 k it will be overkill . Just like when i had mg 1.7( cple grand )if i had 3.5 it would be too much . Now  in my humble opinion either of these the adagio or my 1.7 would benefit from a killer front end . How much ? Well thats in the eye of the beholder some people think youve lost your mind when you have 25 k in a 2:1 system . Some have that in cables ya now . 

I feel a better comparison would be turntable + speed controller + tonearm + cartridge + phono stage compared to the speakers + amplifier.  We will leave the pre-amp alone as it connects the two.