Money well spent

One more thought. Oleschool, I don't know what cables you use, but I just upgraded one excellent old Purist interconnect with another newest Purist which is three steps above it. Wow. It's like a big cartridge upgrade, not a turntable/arm though.

I know my cable choice will get the nod from some not from others . I love acoustic zen stuff . I have all reference mrk 2 matrix throughout tt to phono to pre . Including trans dac and satori spkr cables . Adagios spkrs and revalation audio lab psu and a/c on my nuvista . When i hooked up my az ref from tt to pre it blew me away . I had a spare pair of blue jeans i was using . It was such a drastic change i swapped again to check if i was crazy . The difference is huge in soundstage and bass . Honestly i have been spending to much dam time on this forum and am getting the upgrade bug lol . I cannot honestly believe the guy who say im done and happy where im at. My rebuttal to that is dont go listen to another system in a higher category or you have some serious cash locked in already . 
Not everyone has the new vac or brinkman with alexandras . Lol but if you hear it you will think about an upgrade at 4am . As of now i am headed to cart upgrade then i will keep that cart and off my classic as a complete tt with the benz. Its a great cart for what it is. I have had much better yrs back ..

   the single biggest change for under a grand i have ever enjoyed was room treatment, the changes were staggering and i am amazed at the people who spend massive money on gear and switching around this and that when they have not addressed there acoustics .

Some people, many I would guess, have their rigs in living room so acoustic treatment may not be possible or be limited.
Your cables should be up to what you want to achieve. We all have the upgrade bug, one variable is the degree of it and another that some know it and say it openly and others don't. I too want to upgrade but I prefer to do rare but very significant upgrades, and I just did it. But my next upgrade is going to be much more expensive, it will be either replacing the phono stage with a great tube one or replacing the integrated. Both would be thousands of dollars. Cartridge too at some point, again at least $2k new.

Yep . I will not step away from my modded nu vista until i go vac . As far as  cart 3-5   and tt  3-5 that may go down this fall . I cant see any spkr i want to go with under 15 k at this point gulp .. One mans floor is anothers cieling lol this hobby is just one of my obsessions lol like many here i have a separate ht room which takes $ too among my guitars and my hotrod and bike shop . And my family at the top yikes 

Funny thing is i rarely if ever think about upgrading my digital