Absolutely your front end. I would give carefull consideration to the future of your system. The future is streaming the past is vinyl and CD. Concentration of your money into one approach will get you the farthest most quickly.
The strengths of your system is your speakers and amp… and maybe the preamp.
So with that in mind, you could set yourself up for future upgrades by getting a really good DAC. Something in the $5 - $10K new… used, bringing the cost down. Then use your CD player as a transport. Then as soon as you are able to recover a really good streamer (Aurrender) Then you are set for the future and you’ll have a 10 million+ album collection for $14.99 / month (Qobuz).