Curious .. What is the compared price of your tt vs spkrs

Dear @oleschool:  In the very old times I remember the many years " defunct/dead "  Stereo Review magazyne that over the years they posted a % relationship between: speakers, front end, amp and the like. They did it as a " secure " road to people and especially new audio people. Many of us followed that kind of " expert advise ".

Through the time almost all of us learned about and still are learning each single day.

My " $$$/%% "" priorities are in this order: LPs, room conditioning, true full range speakers, front end, IC and speaker cables, Phonolinepreamp, amps and somewhere in between an audio system dedicated electrical  line. Of course the skills and knowledge level to make the overall audio system set up as accurate as we can with the self capacity to be aware that our set up is just rigth as it should be.

Regards and enjoy the music,
R.

My frist TT was 50% of my speakers and cables. Now My speakers are only 30% of my TT. When I upgraded the TT I wanted to do it once. Started with a Rega RP1pp w/ a couple of upgrades and Rega Exact cartridge.the new TT is a Clearaudio Performance DC w/ Clarify tonearm ,Talisman V2 Gold ,Outer Limit record weight , HRS Analog Disk, linear power supply and Musical Surroundings Nova 2 Phono stage
As your system improves it's not going to fit into some budget formula and at different stages you might have bigger or smaller budget.
You can see my setup in Virtual Systems

  Enjoy the Music

It's not like there is a directly proportional relationship between price and sound quality.  You can have an under-performing front end or speaker and the other end of the chain might be an over-performer that functions at a much higher level than it should at the given price.

That is going to tend to blur results on this sort of survey.

My systems were for years comprised of well assembled front ends and less expensive but over-performing speakers (Vandersteen,, Energy, Spica).  My ratio then would have been about 4:1  in favour of front end.

After a recent upgrade my cost ratio has reversed to about 2:1 cost, speaker to front end (turntable, arm, cartridge and phono preamp).

$20k Shindo 301 TT paired with Altec 846A Valencia's acquired used from the original owner's son for $1200.  I wouldn't call it an upgrade but perhaps down the road (after I get into my final NorCal digs), I'd consider acquiring a pair of Devore Orangutan O/96's while keeping the Altecs. 

It appears that most of us agree that underperforming front end doesn't cut it, no matter how good the speakers might be. Or amps for that matter.