Putting the Quality of the Vinyl LP as a Recorded onto Material to one side, and focusing on the tools required for the extraction of the recorded media, through tracking the Groove.
The Analogue Source is quite easy to be seen as a complex chain of interfaces, it is a unification of a Mechanical, Geometric and Electronic interaction, where each individual element is requiring to achieve a certain level of precision to achieve a replay that would seem to be with a tolerable audible end product as the result.
Attempting to solely work with any one of the Three Critical Interfaces, will bring a change, and in certain cases a betterment can be detected almost immediately, if a particular discipline is accurately imparted.
There is a lot of trust to be placed in the parts attained to produce the entirety of the Set Up that will allow for a replay to take place, and the replay being produced in the eyes of some may only be referred to as being capable.
To achieve more than Capable is a intent that many carry, and the precision needed to be used, to attain what one would describe as their ideal, is commonly seen as a pursuit of a particular element and not the careful optimisation of the unification of all parts dependent on each other.
Hence, threads looking to learn about which single item is most beneficial arise.
Within all the above, there are compromises that some are willing to accept, as the readily available convenience to experience a wider variety parts that are a Critical Interface can be a attraction.
What ever goes on from the Stylus to the Speaker Cross Over is not audible, it is a a methodology to transfer a Electrical Signal that will then be processed at a Speakers Cross Over to create a Audible Sound.
With that in mind, it is quite important to have faith that the Speaker is delivering a Sound that does not interfere detrimentally with the Signal being processed at the Front End.