Hi , last year I went on this journey. Updating a denon dp30l. Finally got to a hifi store without wife or kids in tow and listened to 2 turntables through a quality system, both had ortofon blue carts - project x1 and a rega p3. The rega was too top end in sound, the project muddied boomy bass. I was contualky recommended Thorens. I think is was meant to get an old table, but ended up with a td2015 from a stereo net member. A gamble that paid off and gave great value for money for my $2000 budget. I have since bought a pair of imf studio monitors (1973) and a luxman L58a. They have both been services/ fixed and now I gave a wonderful budget system . The point is listen to some tables foirst. They are all so different. The denon was “ neutral and so is the Thorens. I waited 5 years to hear some tables