Analogue front end. You want more weight, scale and dynamics.Where do you start upgrading?


Is it the table, arm or cartridge, or perhaps phono stage? Assuming you have no clear weak links. Maybe even motor controller ?

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I don't think you can aurally separate a turntable from the tonearm/cartridge, or at least very few of us can, because you would have to take the same tonearm and cartridge en bloc and move them from turntable A to turntable B, and back to A, in order to get a bead on what is the specific contribution of the turntable. And of course the downstream components have to remain constant.

Building a system that gives you what YOU want out of the system is a long term project that results from first deciding what you like.  That means developing the capacity to hear in your subconscious the way you want to hear it. Then you try out different components, to include power cords and interconnects, that get you step by step to the sound that you are imagining.  No one can tell you in advance exactly what choices are going to get you where you want to go. There is no substitute for trial and error.  Once you get a semblance of your imagined goal, you still trade out bits and pieces for those last few percentiles of what it is you are after. So, in my opinion, no one can tell you where to start upgrading.  Do it yourself.