venturing into vinyl.
the most expensive TT and Cartridge will NOT sound good unless the TT/Arm/Cartridge is professionally aligned. It takes time to acquire the skills, and a few inexpensive tools are needed.
to dip your toes, with
no serious investment or initial need for knowledge, alignment tools and skills,
I would buy a simple TT with a switchable built-in phono eq, to ascertain if you will stick with vinyl.
removable headshell is important when beginning.
I had and recommend this one:, quartz locked direct drive, factory aligned arm and cartridge, optional built-in phono (use it to start, use external later)
I actually preferred the sound of it’s built-in phono eq to my McIntosh C28 SS Preamp’s phono eq. When you decide to stick with vinyl, 1st thing to do is a more advanced MM cartridge.
this microline stylus profile comes pre-mounted in a headshell, all you would do is loosen the headshell locking ring and swap the headshell, re-check tracking force and anti-skate force.
any future ’better’ TT, stick with a removable headshell, then that cartridge can be used on it, as well as others you may progress to, i.e. Moving Coil; Mono; ....