Does a turntable make a DRAMATIC difference?

OP,

Wow. Ok. You really have no excuses. Get your butt out there and use some people skills and find a great dealer, if you lived in central Louisiana or Northern Oklahoma… but New York? You should be ashamed of yourself. I spent lots of time out there. You have the world at your feet. If you can’t communicate with someone from New York, go to Overture in Delaware… they are fantastic. I flew out there to see what they could do for me.

Honestly, this is a problem of your own making. You have all the resources of the world at your feet to solve it.

Remember when setting up that changing VTF also changes VTA so you have to reset VTA every time you change VTF.

Somehow records sound better to us humans.  However they are not true to the original recording.  Limited bandwidth, crosstalk, distortion. 

But Somehow we humans like the it, just like tube amplifiers. 

Fi d yourself a used lp12 if you want to kill the Rega for not much money  find an itok Valhalla  or better huge improvement  over the Rega. 

I have a decent digital side. My turntable more than edges out my digital but not always. 

Oddly some recordings sound nearly identical. Rare is it when the digital album beats the analog one.

But I have to agree with set up being key. My analog side is Technics 1200G>AT33PTGII>Hagerman Trumpet MC>Don Sachs Model 2.  preamp. Certainly not high end but it was when I used a thicker mat to zero in on VTA that I got things dialed in. Careful set up is key.