Thanks to you all.
I'll looked into the Mogami cables atmasphere. They're certainly quite reasonably priced.
tomic and nyclee: Right now, I'm assuming that it's the other components, not the speakers that are the weak links. That's based on how wonderful they sounded with some other equipment when I listened to them at Johnny Rutan's Audio Connection. Are you guys saying that with my current gear the Treo's would be a better improvement than upgrading the other components? Even with the unbalanced input from the current CDP?
If my original assumption is correct, for the current $3k, I could get a used codex and the P5xe. I thought that would be the better upgrade path. The Mogami cables are certainly not expensive, but right now, I have no balanced source. I'm not sure what's available for a TT arm that would fit my Music Hall. Still, my current CDP doesn't have balanced output, and that's what I listen to most. I thought that if I optically connect that to the codex and go balanced from there to AX7e, it might sound better than the RCA connection to the AX7e, and I can also stream to the codex. Is my thinking off there?
nyclee - are you saying you swap back and forth from MM to MC? Could you please enlighten me as to why. I understand if you're suggesting I upgrade from the 1012 GX MM to a better MC cartridge. I'm not sure I understand why one would switch back and forth.
I'll looked into the Mogami cables atmasphere. They're certainly quite reasonably priced.
tomic and nyclee: Right now, I'm assuming that it's the other components, not the speakers that are the weak links. That's based on how wonderful they sounded with some other equipment when I listened to them at Johnny Rutan's Audio Connection. Are you guys saying that with my current gear the Treo's would be a better improvement than upgrading the other components? Even with the unbalanced input from the current CDP?
If my original assumption is correct, for the current $3k, I could get a used codex and the P5xe. I thought that would be the better upgrade path. The Mogami cables are certainly not expensive, but right now, I have no balanced source. I'm not sure what's available for a TT arm that would fit my Music Hall. Still, my current CDP doesn't have balanced output, and that's what I listen to most. I thought that if I optically connect that to the codex and go balanced from there to AX7e, it might sound better than the RCA connection to the AX7e, and I can also stream to the codex. Is my thinking off there?
nyclee - are you saying you swap back and forth from MM to MC? Could you please enlighten me as to why. I understand if you're suggesting I upgrade from the 1012 GX MM to a better MC cartridge. I'm not sure I understand why one would switch back and forth.