Budget of components

The search function is your friend. We have covered this many times in the last 15 years. Having said that, I would suggest that you find a speaker that you LOVE and have found it to sound great within several different systems. This will help you to feel confident that it should sound pretty damn good within your set-up. Look to spend up to 50% of system price on speakers. The source would be second for me. Good luck 🍀 

What's your total budget?

Because even imaginary budgeting, if you're gonna do it right, the things it makes sense to budget for change completely depending on the budget. At $1500 it makes sense to budget for a turntable that will come in a package with arm and cartridge, and maybe even phono stage. At $40k it makes sense to budget individual amounts for the turntable, arm, cartridge, and phono stage.

So you at least need to provide a range. Or be blown off or get lame advice like half the money on speakers. Sheesh.

So what's your budget?

Best budget stuff for everything except the speakers, is Schiit Audio equipment end of story.
https://www.schiit.com/products

Cheers George

Budget 100-120k, no turntable to start with in my case.
This budget is cables uncluded.