So what would you recommend for my next upgrade?

A record cleaning machine might be something to consider.

Regards,
-- Al

Used MAGICO!!

+1 Zd & Al. I would get shorter speaker cables also. Would not make any other significant changes until room is finished and tuned to your liking.

That system is very nice and unless you do some major upgrades for large costs, I wouldn't do much unless something in your opinion is missing from the sound. Suggestions that come to mind; I used MIT 330 cables and they were nice. I upgraded to Transparent audio cables and experienced a noticeable improvement in sound without major costs. I purchased the cables used to save money. If you can borrow cables, try them before purchasing. The transparent cables are quite nice and you can find used cables fairly easily and they aren't expensive. They were an improvement over my MIT 330 cables. Noticeable improvement. Next would be to borrow a decent used external DAC and listen to CDs through the rega as a transport only. But again, you have a nice system and it would take some major cash to really see improvements, other than cables and decent (but not stupidly expensive) DAC.

enjoy

Well, if you listen to a lot of vinyl, definitely make sure it is always as clean as can be first before judging anything else.

I clean mine manually but I would listen to vinyl more often probably if I had a reliable and low maintenance record cleaning machine of some sort. The ones I would want do not come cheap though.

After that, I suspect you can do better than the Blue Point Special for similar cost even these days, so that might be worth consideration. NEver a bad idea to have a backup cart around, so adding a new one should not be a big decision point for most vinyl lovers I would think. I always keep 3 or 4 around just in case.