Upgrade Path

Tony,

If your system still sounds good to you "keep it" as is. There's a lot of people on the 'Gon who are basically into "upgrading" just for the sake of upgrading. As for your speakers being "outdated", who makes/made that determination? The biggest change to speakers IMHO has been in area of "voicing". Before you get another set of speakers you may want to consider, are you going for better or just different? Quite often, different is what you're really getting, and that may or may not be better. Many people have gotten rid of some great speakers, to get something supposely better, only to find out "down the road" that they would been happier keeping what they had orginally.

what kind of cables are you using?

Thanks for the responses so far, I appreciate your opinions. My ARC amp is SS but the pre is a hybrid tubed. The cables are Tara interconnects and Audioquest silver speaker cables. I do like the sound of my system but I know it can get better. The question is how much better and at what cost?

I once heard a Duke Ellington recording at a Joseph's Audio demo that blew me away. The retail value of that system was about $75k. I remember they used Manley electronics, Chord cd player and a very expensive turntable along with the Pearl speakers. The digital tracks sounded great as well, but the vinyl Ellington the the most memorable.

On second thought I believe the digital player in the system I heard was a Classe Omega, not the Chord. Just want to be accurate. Thanks again for the replies.

What does your room / setup look like? IMHO your room has more impact then you'd like to believe.