So many great golden era DD tables out there, what do you recommend for $1000?

Uber - I used  Plast-I-Clay Modeling Clay.  I bought 8 lbs. from allartsupplies.com for a little over 20 bucks.  I didn't use it all and gave what was leftover to my grandaughter, so it was a nice "two-fer"!

The  QL-Y66F stock feet are small and springy.  I have springy floors and it was a bad combination.  The MNPCTECH feet are big and heavy and seem to be well damped.  

I did both mods simultaneously, so I can't say which one had more impact, but before the mods I could not turn up the volume very loud at all without getting feedback from airborne vibrations.  Now I can play as loud as I want with no negative effect.  I also had to tiptoe across the floor, and since the mods, I don't think I've ever made the tonearm jump from footfalls.

I love my JVC QL-Y66F.  I have 5 turntables, including a Clearaudio Emotion with the Satisfy arm and a Hana SL, but the JVC is my "main" table.  I had to stuff some plasticlay inside the plinth and replace the bouncy feet with some highly damped aftermarket ones, but it sounds great.  It's really noisy when it starts up and you it definitely does not have a "black background" while it's running, but it sings when it's playing music.  I have a Kiseki Blue NS on it and use a Manley Chinook for the phono stage.  I paid $545 for the table itself.  The  Mnpctech feet were $100.

I also have a Realistic LAB 440 with a Denon DL-301 MKII cartridge that is no slouch.  

Jessica, these ones: 

LARGE TECHNICS SL-1200MK DJ Turntable RISER ANTI-SKID Silver Aluminum Pedestal Feet (Set of 4).

Since they screw in, you can adjust height. 

Does the Technics SL-1200 MKII count in this discussion? I've been wanting to try one and found one that doesn't look like it's done DJ duty and has some KAB upgrades at a reasonable price. I should have it next week.

I just saw that Echo Audio in Portland just got a JVC QL-Y66F in. $425. 

Uber, what step down did you get?  I have a Japanese Onkyo SACD player that I need to get one for.

If you really had "all bases covered" you would not need three turntables.

I currently have 6 turntables (5 in use). I’m clearly off base! Then again, I have 4 complete systems. I rarely use the turntables in two of them, but am glad they are there when I want to listen to them. One I use mainly for play grading my records when I put them on Discogs. I’ve been slowly doing that just so that I have an inventory of them.

The two currently in my main system are both direct drive turntables - a JVC QL-Y66F and a Technics SL1200 MKII. I have the JVC set up with a nice cartridge for my pristine records and the Technics has a Shure V15 Type IV with a JICO SAS stylus for my less than perfect records.

The one in my bedroom is an old Realistic Lab 400 DD table.  It has an auto shutoff feature so I can put on some music and not worry about falling asleep and having the stylus in the runout groove all night.