PERSONAL GEAR LIST; Your opinion on next best upgrade?


I currently have the following gear list and thought I’d come to the experts at Audiogon forums (shameless flattering admitted) to see your thoughts on which should be my next upgrade....

I’ve read here for a few years but never signed up myself.

I was thinking speakers should be next but thought maybe someone would see something here I didn’t that is worth considering first.

  • Pro-ject Carbon debut
  • Pro-ject phono interconnect
  • Lounge audio phono preamp
  • Monster cable RCAs interconnects
  • Jolida fusion dac/pre
  • Belkin song streamer
  • Generic toslink cable to the Jolida’s Toslink-in
  • Musical Fidelty VDAC (not being used right now)
  • Hand built Balanced XLRs from Jolida and to
  • (2) Hypex NC400 mono block
  • Audio Quest X2 speaker cables to
  • NHT SuperTwo

Thanks for your expert advice!

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 I purposely didn't want to talk about what I think is weak due to wanting uncolored gear focused opinions. I guess I can say that the system seems to have "plateaued". I am after advice on which piece, if all other things were equal, would be considered the weakest link in the current chain.
Thanks.
I should have added a pertinent condition here.
I’d like to spend up to $4000 on the next upgrade. So I suppose the question should have been "given the current gear which link(s) is the next to upgrade with a max budget of 4k?"
Thanks @gnostalgick for the threads. I read the one on the 4k speaker price. Question for you... do you think my elektronics currently support moving up in to a better speaker ?
thanks for your thohghts on my current gear. https://forum.audiogon.com/users/gnostalgick  I agree with @2psyop  that to listen is to know. I prefer "rock" but listen everything M83 to Let it Bleed to Kind of Blue (except for twang). I did audition new speakers a month ago, maggie 1.6s with ReL subs and really liked it. But then had the original question pop in my head.... "does my current stack of gear warrant the speaker uogrades now or should I still be working on the gear first?" Thanks agian for commnets that specifically address and contrast the current gear versus the upside of upgrading the current speakers.