Diving back into analog...which turntable to buy

Buy a used Well tempered record Player, Classic or Turntable. All of which can be had for less than or around $1000.00. Back in the day, many Linn owner sold off ther LP12 and switched to Well Tempered. I owned a WTRP and can say that it is a very good spinner indeed. Purchase a Denon 301 MKII and you'll be lovin your playback.

Compare this VPI to this 401
VPU - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tatQ0dvoulE
401 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1LS5iN3G54

Update....I have now spent a couple weeks with my Scout.The setup really wasn't that difficult,a few trips to utube and phone calls and off we go. Not a ton of money invested and really wasn't expecting anything close to my digital side so I wasn't disappointed this time around when it fell short,way short of the mark. Forgetting the snap,crackle,pop..the inconvience of having to get up every 20 minutes to change sides and not wanting to get up to skip the songs that suck...the cleaning of each record before and after each listening session ..im now able to enjoy on some level the records Ive been toting around for decades

Buconero 117,

How can you recommend a u-turn table when he said he wasn't happy with the legendary LP-12. That just seems way off base.

I think that you should decide what is sonically important to you, because digital and analogue have objectively different sounds.

I don't mind a little speed inconstancy, which mainly results from off-centre records. But I hate hate hate the brittle edge of cheap capacitors and digital sources (high frequency artifacts). So, for me, cheap vinyl easily surpasses my expensive digital player. For the owner of my local high end audio store, it is the opposite. We both hear the same thing, but our tastes differ.

That said, set-up is absolutely critical. A cheap but well set up analogue system will easily thrash an expensive system badly set up, and most people who say they can do it, can't. Case in point - my higher end Koetsu took a year to get right. My last adjustment was 10 minutes of arc for azimuth adjustment - and the improvement was qualitative. Or, to make a bad joke, digital: from off to on.

So I would not take your Lynn experience to heart. If you don't mind speed inconstancy, try vinyl again. Find a really good audio store, and try to buy a second hand package which comes with professional setup. Then, if you find that you still like the sound, you can either let it alone or go to the next step of addiction: make microscopic changes, seeking improvement.

Good luck.