If you're willing to max your budget, there are a LOT of options for you, most of which I am not privileged to know enough about to advise on.
I am getting into analog and picked up a used Music Hall MMF-7 and am very pleased with it. It is a highly regarded table, especially at the used price - around $600 for table, arm, and cartridge. It is very musical and warm (I run it through an Arcam AVR200 integrated.) As an advantage, it is pretty much plug and play. There are not really any tweaks you can do easily, except for clamps and matts. And if vinyl turns out not to be your thing, you can probably re-sell a used one at almost the same price.
Non-upgradability can be a down side, though, if you catch a real bad case of vinylitis. A comparable table in quality and (sometimes) price is the Rega P3, on which you can do tonearm upgrades.
Keep in mind the magnitude of the undertaking - building a collection, cleaning the collection, dickering with the arm and the stylus. It may be best to try one of these, save yourself some $$ for albums and a record cleaning meachine, and then, by the time you've spent the whole budget, you'll know whether you like it so much that you chould have spent it all on the able alone.
Good listening.
I am getting into analog and picked up a used Music Hall MMF-7 and am very pleased with it. It is a highly regarded table, especially at the used price - around $600 for table, arm, and cartridge. It is very musical and warm (I run it through an Arcam AVR200 integrated.) As an advantage, it is pretty much plug and play. There are not really any tweaks you can do easily, except for clamps and matts. And if vinyl turns out not to be your thing, you can probably re-sell a used one at almost the same price.
Non-upgradability can be a down side, though, if you catch a real bad case of vinylitis. A comparable table in quality and (sometimes) price is the Rega P3, on which you can do tonearm upgrades.
Keep in mind the magnitude of the undertaking - building a collection, cleaning the collection, dickering with the arm and the stylus. It may be best to try one of these, save yourself some $$ for albums and a record cleaning meachine, and then, by the time you've spent the whole budget, you'll know whether you like it so much that you chould have spent it all on the able alone.
Good listening.