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Direction on my next upgrade

I am a year into my journey down the audio rabbit hole. I am enjoying all the incremental gains and enduring the miss fires. My system is as follows:

Rogue Audio Sphinx V2
Fluance RT85 with Ortofon Blue
Epicure M150's completely rebuilt with kit from Hue at Human Speaker.

I am trying to figure out the next step on my journey. I am considering the next steps.

1- send the Rogue back to be upgraded to V3 which has a much better phono stage($500)
2- switch to a MM in the $500-$750 range
3- switch to a MC cartridge
4- add a seperate phono stage under $1500
5- add a subwoofer to the party

I want to pick the one option that will give me the most improvement for the money. 

Thank you in advance for weighing in with you knowledge and opinions.

Charles
cpdkee

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totem395
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Guy's your wearing me down I'll say it again. 
Start with a room that has been treated acoustically otherwise 
you'll  be chasing your tail.
I assume since the OP didn't mention any that he's still 
dealing with whatever is going on there. 
Once treated as far as you care to implement, then start 
with gear changes.

Both rooms I've used for music were substantially improved
and allowed me to differentiate between how the room sounds 
versus the gear.
It took me awhile to become a room treatment prognosticator 
but I wish it had occurred much earlier in my journey.
Great gear in a so so room will still be so so unfortunately.

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