$1000 should be spent for a NOS DAC or a turntable?

+1 mzkmxcv! The proliferation of DAC's (especially the expensive ones) is a marketing ploy to extract more money from the gullible and neurotic! I still prefer and use one-box CD players!

A turntable requires a cartridge, and a phono preamp too. All eat away at your budget. Also record prices are at an all time high and great records really hard to find cheap, used. Where, on the other hand, used CDs are dirt cheap and tons of great stuff is easy to find.SO... For those reasons alone. (and nothing to do with sound quality) I say find a nice used DAC so you can find and play plenty of music. 
If you buy the turntable, you will have near zero to play on it. and it will cost a lot for each record you buy.        
Good luck.

Thank you all for your valuable input. I was not aware turntable route demands money and time.

I will go for a DAC then, when my budget allows more I will go for a decent turntable with matching accessories.

My current system is Quad 909/99, Devore Nines. As for DAC, there are some candidates I found so far:
-Schiit Yggy (easy to find a used one in market)
-Audial Model S (more rare, not popular)
-Metrum Acoustics Menuet (not as rare as the Audial but still difficult to find one)

The used ones cost about $1500. I can stretch a little bit to avoid future update (hopefully).

Best,
Huy.

I would suggest the Yggy..           
Good luck!

It sounds like you have it sorted, but at that budget I'd say a DAC, no question. You can get the non-SE, coax-only Border Patrol for just under your budget and have a very, very musical DAC. Might not be the best measuring, but whatever.

I just recently got back into CDs (not a streaming guy) from a turntable and while I still use both, you cannot argue the sound quality of a good transport, good dac, and very, very cheap media. If you can or want to stream music, then that's even more reason.