Interesting question. I would be inclined to say the inflection point is around $20 K maybe. $25k. My experience has been the weak link for me has always been the phono stage. I have had an VPI Aries and van den Hull Frog for ten or twelve years, I have upgraded the phono stage a few times. I now have a ARC PH 8... The system sounds great, but it suspect the way for me to upgrade again would be to upgrade the phono stage yet again to the REF 2Se. Before this I had several TT and always the phono stage gave me the biggest improvement.
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Main: Aurender W20SE music streamer, ARC REF 9SE DAC / CD, Linn LP 12, Koetsu Rosewood SignCartrige, ARC REF 3 Phono Stage, ARC REF 6SE Preamp, ARC 160s amp, Sonus Faber Amati Traditional Speakers,Transparent Ultra IC & SC Library:Aurender N100, Ayre QB9 2020 DAC, Woo WA5-LE amp upgraded tubes, Focal Utopia HP, Sennheiser 800s HP, LCD HP.
Last edited by George Prentice; 02-09-2014 at 01:37 PM.
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