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PERSONAL GEAR LIST; Your opinion on next best upgrade?

I currently have the following gear list and thought I’d come to the experts at Audiogon forums (shameless flattering admitted) to see your thoughts on which should be my next upgrade....

I’ve read here for a few years but never signed up myself.

I was thinking speakers should be next but thought maybe someone would see something here I didn’t that is worth considering first.

  • Pro-ject Carbon debut
  • Pro-ject phono interconnect
  • Lounge audio phono preamp
  • Monster cable RCAs interconnects
  • Jolida fusion dac/pre
  • Belkin song streamer
  • Generic toslink cable to the Jolida’s Toslink-in
  • Musical Fidelty VDAC (not being used right now)
  • Hand built Balanced XLRs from Jolida and to
  • (2) Hypex NC400 mono block
  • Audio Quest X2 speaker cables to
  • NHT SuperTwo

Thanks for your expert advice!

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gnostalgick
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Here's a few of the more recent threads on speakers (my reccomendation).

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/1000-2000-floor-standing-speakers-for-larger-room-w-nad-326be...

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/3000-speaker-search

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/do-i-have-to-spend-4000-plus-to-get-a-better-sounding-speaker...
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bad OP
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Thanks @gnostalgick for the threads. I read the one on the 4k speaker price. Question for you... do you think my elektronics currently support moving up in to a better speaker ?
gnostalgick
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I'm no expert but it all seems solid to me.  The Pro-ject is a classic, Jolida is IMO underrated, and Hypex has a good many fans and should power most anything (maybe not planars?)

Also +1 @2psyop's response above.
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bad OP
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thanks for your thohghts on my current gear. https://forum.audiogon.com/users/gnostalgick  I agree with @2psyop  that to listen is to know. I prefer "rock" but listen everything M83 to Let it Bleed to Kind of Blue (except for twang). I did audition new speakers a month ago, maggie 1.6s with ReL subs and really liked it. But then had the original question pop in my head.... "does my current stack of gear warrant the speaker uogrades now or should I still be working on the gear first?" Thanks agian for commnets that specifically address and contrast the current gear versus the upside of upgrading the current speakers.
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bad OP
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Maybe my question is lame. ;-)
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