Buying used, mint condition turntables is very easy on Audiogon, and the good ones do ship perfectly. You can also drive to pick one up yourself as mentioned above.
My suggestion -(and also exactly what I did)
Buy a mint Nottingham Spacedeck with the newer AceSpace arm for about 2K. (I drove about 3 hours and picked mine up myself.)
Then get a brand new Zyx Airy 3 from Mehran at Sorasound.
For less than 4500. you will have a beautiful combo with absolutely superb sound. IMHO you would need to pay near 10K to do better.
Good luck on your purchase.
My suggestion -(and also exactly what I did)
Buy a mint Nottingham Spacedeck with the newer AceSpace arm for about 2K. (I drove about 3 hours and picked mine up myself.)
Then get a brand new Zyx Airy 3 from Mehran at Sorasound.
For less than 4500. you will have a beautiful combo with absolutely superb sound. IMHO you would need to pay near 10K to do better.
Good luck on your purchase.