Upgrade Rega P25 to VPI Aries? Advice?

I have an Aries and love it - the looks are great and with the JMW arm also sounds great with the Benz-Micro .4 cartridge. However you have a very good table and arm so spend the money on an upgrade cartridge and phono preamp and buy some more records.

It is a trueism in high end audio that at certain point you have to pay more money for small improvemnts but better sound. I was in the same position as you awhile back, I had a Linn LP12 table with a good arm and cartridge but I wanted to improve the sound. I listened to the VPI Aries and the TNT with the JMW arm and went with the Aries, JMW arm and Grado Reference cartrigde. While not light years better than the Linn setup a definite improvement in my system. I think it all comes down to if you want to spend more money for a 10 -20% improvement. To get a dramatic improvement over your Rega, you will have to spend big bucks. Listen and deceide if the improvement is worth it for you. Good luck.

Thanks for the followups to my question. It sounds like from the comments here that I would probably not get that dramatic an improvement with the Aries over the Rega, esp. when the Aries is easily 3 times the price. I might start researching a different pre-amp & phono stage at some point, & maybe buy a VPI record cleaning machine in the meantime......thanks again.