Include a record cleaner in your budget. Sadly the high end ultrasonic will pretty much eat up your budget. There are much lower cost alternatives, work out in your head the cost vs. effectiveness vs. hassle factor for each and add this to your budget. Are you a tinkerer or do you want a table to show up ready to play? Setting up an expensive cartridge is not for the faint of heart, you should be able to guess how I know this. Hoping you have a reputable dealer that sells one of the brands listed above and will set up the table plus cartridge for you. $5000- for new equipment versus used will sound pretty much the same. Consider a hybrid model, used table plus cleaner with a new cartridge, preferably professionally installed.
Looking for more advice on purchasing a new turntable.
So I’m looking for Opinions/Advice from people who have high-end turntables and the experiences with.
First, I’ll start with my system. It consists of a Prima Luna preamp and two Prima Luna amplifiers along with the prima Luna phone stage with a pair of magnepans 1.7 My budget for the table is $5000 new or used, but for that price I would want it to come with a really good cartridge otherwise, 4000 for the table and 1000 for the cartridge.
Thanks I look forward to your recommendations.