I am enjoying my analog system, but what can I do to improve?

there will be a requirement for a special room treatment, to be placed in a very easy to reach location between the listening position and the speakers, a selection of Biscuits is the only requirement for a          very special room treatment for these occasions. 

In the antipodes some wine and a “cheese and bickie plate” are used …

It seems like it should be pretty nice as is.
 

I would suggest you buy more albums and just enjoy it for now.

a dipole in a ten by ten box, surely…not…

Is there dishonour in considering headphones @tomic601 ?

I am enjoying my analog system, but what can I do to improve?

@chungjh 

• How old are you?
• Do you have friends or family that also like music?
• Where are you?

So, it looks like the consensus is to get better analog components. @stereo_gen also makes a good point. My system current sounds good and could live with it.

And from your opening thread:

My system sounds great, but I am wondering how I can take my system to another level.

To which I previously asked:

• How old are you?
• Do you have friends or family that also like music?
• Where are you?

We now know that it is Bethesda and someone is near you as mentioned coming over.

But I was thinking along 2 lines here:

1. If even a cheap CD sounds great and your TT does not,.. then we know that the issue is in the TT or phono stage.
   1. If the CD sound is also lacking, then it is likely the room/speakers… If that is the case, then a different TT should not do a whole lot to help things that are room/speakers related.
2. The second “line of thought” (with the “friends or family” question), was that it might be cheaper and more enjoyable to just every month or two, give a niece, nephew, friend, etc… $50 to buy an LP for you/them and bring it over for a listening party.
   1. If your system is already good, then it would be a way to aid in enjoying it, and in sharing the enjoyment..

@stringreen mentioned concerts. Which I believe could be sort of the same deal of money spent on entertainment versus equipment…

However he might have been suggesting that as a way to get a better handle of what live music sounds like.
(But that assumes that what you listen to is not a rock concert, with little bearing to what the same group’s studio album may not resemble at all.)

I got about a 1/2 dozen of Son in Law’s favourite LPs, so when he comes over we can have a listen. And I got (or am giving) him a few that I like.

(Sort of like a 2 person “book-sharing club” I guess?)