I have been an audiophile for over 55 years, since i was 14.  I have owned over 20 turntables in that time.  I have not owned one since the mid 80's.  I do not stream or rip.

I have tried to implement the best digital front end sources I could afford.  i think I have achieved great sound with both simplicity and elegance and am very happy. 

My loudspeaker make and model were usually paired with inferior budget electronics and so their true potential was never realized by their owners who then moved on. 

The Gallo Ref 3.5's have no crossovers, enclosures or ports, the usual weaknesses of most loudspeakers.  I feel the CDT high frequency unit is superior to most dome tweeters for both soundstage and accuracy.  I felt that raising the speakers 8 inches on solid ballistic rubber blocks improved all parameters.

A brief system description follows.

Amplifier: Bricasti Design M28 Mono Block Power Amps

Preamplifier  None.  See DAC below.

Speakers:  Anthony Gallo Acoustics Reference 3.5 on 8 inch ballistic rubber blocks.

Sources: CD Player/DAC: Berkeley Audio Design Alpha DAC Reference Series 2 MQA.

Transport: Weiss Engineering Jason Transport.

Speaker Cables/Interconnects: TARA Labs Zero Evolution Balanced Interconnect with HFX Floating Ground Station. TARA Labs The 0.3 Loudspeaker Cable.  TARA Labs Zero Evolution AES/EBU Digital Cable with HFX Floating Ground Station.

Power Conditioners/PC's:    Oyaide Vondita-X Power Cords.    Akiko Audio Corelli Corundum Power Conditioner.  Telos Mini Quantum Resonators.
Ayre Acoustics L-5xe AC Power Filter. 

Dedicated 20 amp power line.

Furutech GTX-D NCF(R) AC Receptacles (3).