Of course it is not the "best solution" at $2500
This is the price for a used coreless direct drive Technics 1200G released not so long ago, the GR version is even cheaper.
You can even spend your $2500 much better if you don't mind to buy some vintage tip top stuff like Denon DP-80, Technics SP-10mkII, Luxman PD-444 with tonearm of your choice and some decent vintage MM cartridge for example. Personally i am much more happy with vintage DD turntables, some of them are here. Luxman PD-444 is definitely my favorite of them all, i like it so much that i even bought two.
This is the price for a used coreless direct drive Technics 1200G released not so long ago, the GR version is even cheaper.
You can even spend your $2500 much better if you don't mind to buy some vintage tip top stuff like Denon DP-80, Technics SP-10mkII, Luxman PD-444 with tonearm of your choice and some decent vintage MM cartridge for example. Personally i am much more happy with vintage DD turntables, some of them are here. Luxman PD-444 is definitely my favorite of them all, i like it so much that i even bought two.