Jelco SA-750D or Rega RB250

@invictus005 What is your cartridge and turntable? Not sure how anyone can recommend a tonearm like that. If you’re looking for inexpensive tonearm with superb build quality (vta on the fly etc) check for vintage Victor 7045 in perfect condition (under $600) and ingnore modern Rega and Jelco. This Victor 7045 tonearm is amazing and easy to use (one of my favorite). Jelco is for MC cartridges and higher mass btw. Rega is the ugliest tonearm ever made (imo) !

The "key words" you have mentioned are all about the cartridge first. I would ingone the MC cartridges (just a waste of money). The Victor 7045 tonearm with decent MM cartridge (like Victor X1, X1II or AT-ML170) simply killing most of the MCs.

@chakster so the Victor tonearm is one of the most underrated and a giant modern arm killer?

Victor UA-7045 tonearm (and longer brother UA-7082 with higher mass) were the top of the line from Victor Laboratory, those arms comes with Victor TT-101 turntable (also with TT-801, 81). They are absolutely amazing and underrated for some reason, before trying anything expensive i’d buy UA-7045 in perfect working condition, it will be hard to find anything like that for under $750 (which is the actual cost of UA-7045 today, sometimes even cheaper). I’m pretty sure UA-7045 kills tonearms with typical price tag of $1500 and higher. For the best Victor cartridges like X-1, X-1II (MM) or for the MC-1, MC-10L ... this is the arm to try first! Just make sure the rubber that supports the counterweights is fine.

Also keep in mind that it was developed and produced by JVC / Victor Laboratory (the giant of the industry), not by someone from scratch at garage like many today’s arm of the higher price.