Can I match or beat my digital, and at what cost?

Welcome to vinyl!
My advice going forward: All due respect to local retail dealers, I found that the folks on this forum provide me with very experienced advice without the inevitable dealer ulterior motivation of upselling me only the shop's limited products. I say this after many years and many dollars of high price/mediocre performance mainly due to mismatched components, local retail shop influence, and my own stubborness. If I had better followed the suggestions, hints, and gentle nudges in the right direction from this forum (as well as audio asylum), I would have saved quite a bit of time and money.

05-06-09: No_money
and.... upgraded to the P3-24.

Good show! Save yourself the hassle later and enjoy
more music better sooner.

Cartridge?

Cartridge is the Elyes 2.

Ok so I tried posting another thread to update what I ended up with but that was "denied" for some reason??? Odd..... So I will bring this one back up.

I ended up with:

Rega P-3 24 , to be upgraded to p5 this weekend
Rega exact 2 cart.
Rega TT PSU
Clearaudio Basic plus phono

I also found a local shop that has a fairly decent selection of LPs. Lots of new
and used to select from.

Haven't turned the cd player on in a while :)

Wow going from a p1 to a p5 is quite a jump! How bout marantz-clearaudio table w~800 usd cart for 1500?