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Advice on a turntable for a clean midlevel system

Any opinions on a turntable to fit my system; a work in progress? My consideration:
I have 2 in college, so i need to be cost effective. Thus, I am not in the $10,000 plus spectrum.
My Likes: a system that has lots of detail with sweetness in the midrange (the better to hear Coltrane's tenor and Madeleene Peyroux's vocals) , some sound-stage, I like everything from folk, jazz, classical and rock.
Current system: Panasonic techniques turntable from 1975 with Grado Gold cartride (this I want to give to one of my sons), California Audio Lab DX 1 NAD Integrated amp- plan is to upgrade to a Creek (5350) or Bryston, Tetra M1200 speakers- they fit my listening space well.
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Thanks for the many helpful responses. Good food for thought. Given my champagne tastes and microbrew budget $700-1000ish I want to find that sweet spot, a turntable that sounds great, would match up well with a Creek 5350 amp and Tetra speakers) AND one would need to spend 2-3 times more to notice an appreciable difference.

My California Audio labs DX1 CD player is a good example of this philosophy... I upgraded to this from a very basic philips CD player $200 versus $550. The difference was vast, I had to play all of my CDs and essentially rediscover them. I found that poorly remastered CDs flaws were revealed- but that's why we love vinyl right?

I will be looking and used VPIs and Mucic Hall turntables.
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