I've been through the turntable and cartridge rabbit hole and back... I still own over a 1000 records (trying to sell most of them slowly at the right prices) and very occasionally use my vintage Sony turntable (a very nice PSX50) to play them, but this website has ruined (rightly so) the use of it as my main source. Once I saw or rather heard it's inherent limitations there was no way of going back. Of course I still enjoy using the turntable once in a while and I'll probably keep a few hundred LPs, but no more spending big bucks on equipment in the vinyl rig. I've settled with the Sony and for cartridge I use a couple rather budget vintage MMs with the Black Diamond line of stylii which I've found are a steal for the money. For less than $50 you get a really good stylus that, used sparingly as in my case, will last me a decade.