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What was your most fun and rewarding upgrade?

I've got a decent setup:
PrimaLuna Evo 400 Integrated with KT120'S and Psvane 12au7s
Clearaudio Concept Wood with Hana EH Cartridge
Musical Surroundings Nova III with linear Power Supply
Ps Audio P10
Focal Aria 936
No upgraded power cables, but Big Sur Interconnects and $200 Wireworld speaker cables

What I'm curious about was what was your most rewarding upgrade? Also, if you were in my scenario, where do you think the most fun upgrade would be for you? What was your most wasteful or least interesting upgrade? What steps do you wish you would have made first and which would you have saved for last? Also, what upgrade did you love that maybe didn't give you the most bang for buck or was least valuable, but you enjoyed the most?

I'm considering a Herron Phonostage for my next experience. Or cables. Or isolation. Ahhhh the options (but the Herron phonostages...)
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@phcollie what's your friends name and style of music? I want to look him up on Qobuz.
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My current speakers I got about 2.5 years ago. I'd really struggled finding speakers I loved flipped through a bunch then we bought our small condo I traded for a pair of original JMlabs Micro-Utopias. I liked and ran them for almost 10 years,  then I went to my first audio show. I realized something was missing,  a more dense fleshed out midrange.

I traded those speakers, and cash, for my current Audio Note J-lx's and could not be happier, This is the sound I've always wanted the 8" driver really gives me a great midrange and plenty of bass for my small room. By far my best upgrade and I've had some good ones in the past.
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