Lots of little doo dads jacked the price with my vinyl front end, and much not seen in a mere picture.

Like a $3,000 ZYX Cartridge, a $600 Isolation Base, Phono Stages, a $1,000 Phono Cable, on and on, I could spend a large paragraph with all the tweaks, upgrades, custom mods.

As always, it's a continual "work in progress", is one ever done? LOL

It was always my creed that to get the best sound from JBL, feed them a good clean signal from the Amps, and sources.
That they are all influenced by the "quality" they get fed. And yeah, sometimes that can equate to $$$$$.

No, the 4430 isn't a pair of $60,000-$70,000 Dynaudio Reference Speakers, but they can provide pretty good sound if you work at what comes before them.

To add, this simple set-up I shown above is far from optimal, was just for illustrative purposes was all.