Ok, so your talking about $4600 for everything. I would go with the following.
VPI Scout for $2100, with tonearm. Denon DL-130R cartridge, $400.
That leaves you $1600 for an excellent sounding, Quicksilver tube phono stage.
Leaves you $500 for some great LP's.
I have owned the above and it made me very happy for many years, until just recently when I found the table of my dreams. I will never sell the Quicksilver phono stage, and still shuttle in and out my Denon cartridge along wiTH Grado wood bodies, or Goldring Eroica.
Happy hunting.
Mg16
VPI Scout for $2100, with tonearm. Denon DL-130R cartridge, $400.
That leaves you $1600 for an excellent sounding, Quicksilver tube phono stage.
Leaves you $500 for some great LP's.
I have owned the above and it made me very happy for many years, until just recently when I found the table of my dreams. I will never sell the Quicksilver phono stage, and still shuttle in and out my Denon cartridge along wiTH Grado wood bodies, or Goldring Eroica.
Happy hunting.
Mg16