Getting into Vinyl...

I'd suggest that you listen to Elizabeth. And that you pick up an inexpensive SS phono preamp. (The Rega P1, I'm pretty sure, comes with a mounted cartridge, so you'll be using what they give you. Which will be a moving magnet.) You'll find people here who will scare you off of vinyl. (Though I don't believe that's their intent.) They will tell you that you need doctors from Africa to look at your stylus and that you've got to stand on your head while you clean your records on a machine that has been blessed by a Zen master, and that when it is raining three states away you'd best not play your mono LPs or all of your hair will fall out. Stuff like that. They are probably right about at least some of what they say. But you can go down all of those road when you desire. I started with a decent little 'table and a decent little cartridge and less than a decent little phono preamp -- and I really really really began to enjoy listening to vinyl again. And now I've got a better 'table and a better cart' and a better phono pre, and I'm liking records more than ever. The point -- at least from here -- is that you shouldn't be scared. Records sound great and they are tons of fun. (I'be prolly bought 100 records in the past few months and maybe six CDs in that same time.) Remember that this is supposed to be fun. And about music. And then spin the black circle.