Buying a new TT today


So I’m pretty hellbent on buying a new TT today! Or should I be?!?!? 
I started off kind of sour on vinyl several years back when I ignorantly bought a cheap TT that had a built in phono stage.... Talk about a disappointment! And a buzz kill for vinyl!
Anyway a year or so later I bought a Project Carbon Debut and it blew my mind!!!!  The step up in most aspects of the TT, carbon fiber tone arm/heavier plinth/much heavier platter/motor and remote position/better cartridge in a Ortofon m2red, along with the fact the it was now running through my Integrated’s Phono Stage was just such a leap in sound that I never expected, that now I’m looking for yet another leap like that again lol
Anyway, with pocket flush with cash and headed to two hi-fi shops I pause....
In my new price range, $2,000 or so, should I be looking for a new TT? Or a new cartridge for the TT I have ?
thoughts.
264win

Showing 2 responses by glupson

This is an unusual thread. Not helpful. All the recommendations make sense in their own way. I started with thinking "turntable (Technics 1200GR)" then read millercarbon's view so I switched to "cartridge", then like that back and forth.

The only thing I could recommend is....do not go out and buy it today. Sleep on it, let it settle, develop your own feel for it. In not so long of a time, you will end up with a new cartridge and a new turntable anyway. So, you may wait a little and do what mikelavigne recommended, too.

Choices, choices.