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

mulveling, you may be right that given proper isolation cartridge/phono stage unit becomes more important than table itself. Or it will vary wildly.

The biggest change to a turntable is always the cartridge. Always. You will need to ensure that the cartridge is compatible with the tonearm and phono stage, SUT and/or head amp.

The second biggest change to improve your analog setup is... speakers. I know, controversial. But you asked for the biggest change and the first and last transducers always make the biggest impact on the sound of your system.

You seem to have all the answers already. 

“You want more weight, scale and dynamics”

Turn up the gain?

Direct drive versus previous belt drive tt’s did it for me.
which was Direct Drive ?