List your System Ingredients: Listed most to least expensive, by list price or price paid


How did you proportion your system spending? You can choose to list by component name or type, and by the the price you actually paid new or used, OR by the original full retail price. Just be consistent. 

For example, by price paid mine would be-

Millercarbon: Tone arm, speakers, phono stage, motor, cartridge, turntable, Cones (rack, Shelf, etc), speaker cable, power cords, room treatment and tweaks, amp, interconnect.

But by full retail price when new mine would be:

Millercarbon: Speakers, speaker cables, tone arm, Cones (rack, Shelf, etc), phono stage, power cords, cartridge, motor, interconnect,  amp, room treatment and tweaks (fuses, ECT, HFT, etc).


  
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Hi,
and in percentage:
Turntable/arm/cartridge 33%
Power amp 23%
Cables (including power & distr) 21%
Speakers 12%
Rack 12%
Line pre 10%
SACD 7%
R2R 5%
Phono 5%
Tuner 3%
MD 2%


The great reviewer Robert Harley has said the foundation of the high end audio system is the turntable. petg60 seems to have taken that to heart.
Yes, the foundation of a great system is the turntable. Well, if you haven’t figured out how CDs work, it is? Once you figure it out, there’s not much of a contest. 🤗