Money well spent

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 

I too don't really feel the wish to upgrade digital, though I know that it can be seriously improved. So far my CEC belt drive player serves me well, but I don't listen to it often. When I do upgrade it or if it just breaks down and I wouldn't want to have it fixed, I'll probably go with used older Accuphase or Esoteric or maybe some higher level Marantz.

There is VAC Phi 110i top of the line integrated for sale on usaudiomart from Canada for less than $10k. New cost about $25k.
Oleschool, they almost never come up for sale.