Cost Effective System Improvement?


My hobby is to get the best possible sound IMO at the lowest possible cost. My system:

Tekton Electron Speakers - Upgraded
Doge 10 Tube Amplifier (generally 30WPC in Class A) with Psvane KT88-TII, GE 5751 3 mica black plate preamp tubes, and NOS Mullard CV4024 phase inverters.
Denafrips Pontus DAC
Canare 4S11 Speaker Cables

I listen only to TIDAL Premium through Bluesound Node 2i using the BluOS on an android tablet. I often listen to vocals and use the following as test tracks:

Vaya Con dios “Don’t Cry for Louie”
Dave’s True Story “Chasin’ The White Line Down”
Dead Can Dance “The Wind That Shakes the Barley”
Harry Nilsson “Without You”
Glen Campbell “By The Time I get To Phoenix”

I would like recommendations on what I might do for a cost effective improvement. I would consider spending $2-4K for different speakers or amplifier. The speakers and/or amplifier would have to weigh less than 80lbs. My back is 75 years old.

I appreciate your recommendations.
chinook9

Showing 4 responses by mahgister

You’re done! That’s it! From this point it’s all diminishing returns. ;)
No you are right someone could always pay more to buy some difference....

This is somewhat true...

The half truth in your claim is that you dont say the essential: half of S.Q. comes from electrical,mechanical and Especially acoustical controls and treatment...At possibly low cost...Most of the times more than the upgrades you love so much....

Plugging new gear in a wall and putting ready made panels on a wall is not audiophile experience and reviewing them is of no use save to sell one....

Myself i sell common sense at no cost.... Try to beat me...Call me a fool...You could not have any other argument anyway....Save the common place fact that higher end engineering may cost a fortune and be "better"....For sure they are better.....

Acoustic, mechanical control, and even electrical noise floor control could cost low money though and are 50% of the S.Q....( The % is a metaphor and change in function of the relation of the gear with his embeddings controls or lack of)

The question is not, save for a fool, which is the better system in the world, but how can i create a very good satisfying one at lower cost....

But common sense is something that is harder to sell.... For sure.....




By the way you seems to not understand the law of diminushing returns at all.... Ask me and i will explain it to you....I dont joke here... You dont have a clue it seems by the unilateral  way you use it....
Thanks millercarcon but most people dont own an audio dedicated room...And my system is impossible to live with it and a wife in a living room...

I created it to prove to myself i could reach near the highest Hi-Fi to my satisfaction with basic good choosen gear yes, but embeddings controls at NO COST or very low without buying nothing by recreating some basic ideas or some costly devices...

Most people are better to be inspired by what you have which is Hi-FI, more beautiful...And more costly... Though...

 Anyway the truth is simple:  WE embed everything before ANY upgrade....

  
i concur with millercarbon for using springs and with oldhvymec for acoustic cardinal importance...