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What do I do with this system?

Hi, folks.  I'm sure my question is not original, but I'd welcome some advice.  I'm getting back into the hobby after a long drought and have a 30-year old system consisting of:

Bryston 0.4B Pre-amp
Bryston 4B Power amp
B&W Matrix 804 Speakers
Monster cables and interconnects
Philips CD-60 CD player

Back in the day, this was pretty decent gear, but technology marches on.
What to do?  1. Sell it all and start over?  2. Upgrade select components?  3. Do nothing?
I'm leaning toward Option 2 with the addition of a turntable and swapping the 804's for bookshelf speakers.

Thanks in advance for your input.     

lrennell

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millercarbon
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The improvement from Monster will be immense. The other stuff, presumably you liked it then and will like it now. But connected with Monster is like one baby step up from patch cords and lamp cord. 

Wanting to add a turntable, so a tube integrated with phono stage would be good. Except the B&W are only 87dB, would be nice to find something newer/better and more like 95dB. 

Guess my vote is sell it all and start over. Except keep the CD. CD is CD, not worth anything, not worth spending more on either. So just keep it and concentrate on what does sound good, and find a nice turntable.
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