help choosing a turn table

@rbgator94  Looking forward to reading your initial experiences with the Vinyl Source.

I'm sure there will be plenty of entertainment to be had. 

I’m a Rega agnostic. The design philosophy is contrarian, so it might succeed or fail in practice, but I’ve never heard any Rega so far as I can recall. If Rega is right, almost everyone else is wrong.

Enjoy your purchase, I'm sure it will workout fine.

I've never heard a Rega but they must be doing something right to sell so many tt.

Whatever you buy folks will criticize, if there was a perfect company we would only have one option.

@lewm and OP, regarding Rega's design philosophy - it's really only an issue of contention with the more expensive turntables, rather than at the  pricepoint the OP is considering. The strong points of Rega's original design were  - for the budget - a well toleranced bearing, a suspended motor (albeit with fairly rudimentary supension - a float glass platter and a really well designed and toleranced arm (once they replaced the original Acos with the RB300). Many of these features have been copied by other manufacturers since, but the fundamentals - plus improvements to the motor and the bracing on the arm/chassis of the latest models - continue to make the Rega P3 a very competitive turntable. Roy Gandy's belief that resonance in turntables is best tackled by making the TT as skeletal as possible - and the downstream design and engineering consequences of that in the expensive Regas - is where the contentiousness arises.

a $1500 turntable won't compete with 10K turntables. It will compete with other ~$1500 turntables.