How do you know what your weakest link is?


I'm  contemplating what to upgrade and need some advice on what my weakest link is? I'm considering either upgrading my Clearaudio Concept Wood to a Performance DC Wood/Ovation with a Hana ML or upgrading my Musical Surroundings Nova III to a Modwright 9.0. Is my table the weak link or is my phono? What will my best gain come from and what should I expect that gain to manifest as? 
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Showing 1 response by clearthinker

You can't tell what is your weakest link just by playing your system as you can't know what component is doing what.
You have to swap out successive components one a a time and observe the changes.  Experience listening to many other systems will also help.

You also need to decide if you want to be a tweaker.  You can add tweaks, again one at a time, retaining your present system and determine if you think any changes they make are positive or not.