Newb..pls help.


Hi everyone, I am a 57 yr old newb to the higher end audio scene. I am putting together a system for all the vinyl I bought back in the 1970’s when I was a teen. I have narrowed it down to my budget of the Rotel RA-1572 and the RA-1570. I cannot find a side by side comparison and recommendation ANYWHERE and I am too newb to know what to understand anyway. I chose the Rotel’s because they have so many quality features and they fit my budget. Pls help as the $$ spread between the two is enough for me to ask....otherwise I would just plunk down the money for the 1572 and be done.

PS. If it helps you experienced people assist me, I also have CD collection.. as I lived through 8-track, cassette, CD, and now apparently the internet. I currently have a Marantz CD-6006, Music Hall Ikura TT, Martin Logan 700w Dynamo sub, Focal Spirit Classic headphones, and soon to be added (I think) KEF Q-700’s)

Thanks so much in advance. MM

mormark
What Millercarbon said. Also when reviewers say things like a little warm, they mean rolled off and dull. When they say a little bright, they mean searing highs.
You are not old, dude. Treat yourself to a tube integrated and have some fun. Then a better turntable, phono amp etc.
Thanks to each of you. I'll keep looking in the direction you all have provided so far. This stuff is so overwhelming..but interesting and challenging. Plus I'm analytical, I can't help myself. 

Re; the "hi-fi" review, I read that also, but then others that were completely opposite. So my question is, is hi-fi review a reliable source? Sorry...but at 57 I realize I kicked a few to many dates to the curb when I was younger before I got to know them.
If at any time when looking for a component I come across a review a comment like "not the worst but..." I tend to go look somewhere else. 
So you can imagine what I do when that phrase is in the TITLE of the review!
https://www.whathifi.com/rotel/ra-1572/review

Okay you don't have to imagine. I'll tell you. I don't even read the review.

Sorry. I know its just a review. I know all about reviews. They tend to be thinly disguised marketing infomercials. Which is why I wouldn't even read the rest of this one, and would run not walk away from this integrated.
Any other integrateds someone might suggest?

I  would strongly suggest a look at Yamaha's offerings.  The A-S1100 is in the same price range as the Rotels you're looking at (well, it is where I live).  The build quality and sound betters most everything in the price bracket, but more importantly perhaps, given the vinyl focus of your question, it and its two bigger brethren have excellent phono stages.

The MM stage in particular is excellent and will match a great many dedicated external phono stages.  The MC stage isn't quite up there, being a head amp bolt-on to the MM section, but the sum of the two still outperforms anything I've heard in similarly priced integrateds.  If you intend to use an MC cartridge I'd add a decent step-up, but otherwise you're good to go.
Hello mormark!

Welcome to the ranks. If I were to do this audiophile thing all over, I would base my system on a really fine integrated amplifier with ample power to deliver natural dynamics.  

From following threads here for years, I would have to take a long, hard look at Rogue Audio's offerings. 

Looks like the 1572 has a much better DAC so you could use the digital out of your Marantz into it and it'll make it sound a bit better. Also the 1572 does DSD via the PC-USB in case that's an interest. 
If neither of those are of interest to you then get the 1570 and save a few bucks.