Bang for buck turntable?


I am looking for a good turntable to transfer some vinyl to DVD, on stereo 24/96 PCM tracks. The equipment I intend to use for the recording are a Lynx sound card (not particularly sure which one) and an Aurora (from the same company) outboard mixer/ADC. (Lynx calls them "master quality" ADC's.

I will need an XLR output. But I want to avoid paying for snake oil grad equipment. This is something I'm liable to do once and then sell the equipment.
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I haven't played a record in 20 years. However, there are some things that are only on vinyl. And a few things I might try to buy to see if they sound better on vinyl.

I am thinking that a turntable over $3000 is getting into snake oil territory.

Is RIAA equalization related to volume level? It did occur to me that getting the volume level set properly is going to be an issue.

I do not have a phono stage. I recall reading about turntables with XLR outputs and I'm hoping that I can get one with the preamp built in.

I would gladly pay someone to do this. But the stuff is copyrighted; isn't that illegal? Even if it isn't unethical, I am skeptical that a professional media transfer would be willing to do it.