I have to disagree with George's price point. There is a point where turntables become better than cdps, but i personally like the sound of a decent cdp, like the a3cd, over an $800 TT rig. I would place the price up around $2k for the TT, arm, cart and phono. That's just my opinion, and ya' might want to take in to consideration that i grew up with cds.