I'd like to hear recommendations for Turntables under $5,000

Nandric, I am sorry that you mistook my estimate of the market value for the Kenwood L07D as an offer to sell at that price.  However, if you outlive me, you are welcome to petition my wife for the right to purchase mine, provided I have not figured out a way to take it with me by then.  If I can leave my bad back here, I will definitely carry the L07D with me to the other side.  Chakster wants $5000 for his L07D?  Which is to ask also, Chakster has an L07D?

The adjective "warm" applied to a turntable suggests to me either a resonant plinth or speed irregularity due to stylus drag or belt creep.  However, I have zero basis for indicting the Michell on any of those grounds, because I never heard one and am not even sure what it looks like.

Although you didn't explicitly say so, it sounds like you're looking for another BD, like your Thorens or like the VPI turntables you named.  There's nothing wrong with that.

I don't think one should put the DD candidates in the same basket with the BD candidates, but I do think one can buy a superb turntable for under $5000, if one is willing to buy a used or refurbished unit.  Or any one of the current production turntables mentioned already. First, decide whether you prefer DD or BD.  Then choose among the many very good candidates in these two categories.  That's homework for the OP.

I'll just add the Kenwood L07D (about $3500, usually), and even the Denon DP80 ($1000 for a fully restored one), to the list.  The L07D comes with integral plinth that is state of the art even by current standards and a fine tonearm made for Kenwood by Micro-Seiki.  The DP80 needs a suitable plinth. By the way, I don't know why a DD with motor by M-S is per se going to be top tier; M-S never made a really great DD.  This is not to say that the Luxman is not also superb.

Nandric, You crack me up.  We (in the English speaking world) are taught that Marie Antoinette said "Let them eat cake".  But I suppose the starving French masses could have resorted to cookies as well, in lieu of bread.  But she was Austrian, was she not? Maybe she said "Let them eat sacher torte". That would have put a great strain on all the bakeries in Vienna, I'm sure.