Something else will be better. Your best price/performance in your range will be with a turntable, integrated (not a receiver, an integrated amp) with built-in phono stage, speaker cables, and interconnects. Your Advents are a bit of a problem as at least if I remember right they are very inefficient, so require a lot of power, something you can hardly afford. On the plus side your amp according to eBay could net you several hundred, which together with another few hundred for the Advents and the $600, call it $1200 altogether, you could probably put together a much better sounding system.
A couple things to keep in mind if you decide to try this-
Affordable speakers with high efficiency will not only sound better but help get a lot more out of your amp dollar by working well with even a lower power amp. This one move will open up your choices a lot.
Going integrated maximizes your audio dollar by eliminating the extra chassis and power supplies, both big cost factors that wind up being duplicated when going to separates. You also save big by not needing any interconnect to connect pre-amp and amp.
Interconnects and speaker cables are essential components well worth significant investment. But significant in relation to your total system cost of around $1200 means something like $100 each.
Finally none of the cost numbers mean go out and spend that much. $100 is nothing more than a way to filter out and save time. It means you do not waste much time listening to $500 interconnects- except as a reference, to give you some idea what the cheaper ones are trying to do. But at the low budget end you simply cannot afford to buy based on advice or reviews, you simply must go and listen. Listen to stuff much cheaper, listen to used, there are bargains to be had and this is the way you find them.
I've actually done this for friends a couple times now. Its downright impressive what can be accomplished these days for around $1200 to 1500. Total. The systems I did were CD, SS integrated, bookshelf speakers, interconnect, speaker cables, power cord, and cones. Yes a fully tweaked system for under $1500- and that was all new gear. Buying used you should be able to do even better.
A couple things to keep in mind if you decide to try this-
Affordable speakers with high efficiency will not only sound better but help get a lot more out of your amp dollar by working well with even a lower power amp. This one move will open up your choices a lot.
Going integrated maximizes your audio dollar by eliminating the extra chassis and power supplies, both big cost factors that wind up being duplicated when going to separates. You also save big by not needing any interconnect to connect pre-amp and amp.
Interconnects and speaker cables are essential components well worth significant investment. But significant in relation to your total system cost of around $1200 means something like $100 each.
Finally none of the cost numbers mean go out and spend that much. $100 is nothing more than a way to filter out and save time. It means you do not waste much time listening to $500 interconnects- except as a reference, to give you some idea what the cheaper ones are trying to do. But at the low budget end you simply cannot afford to buy based on advice or reviews, you simply must go and listen. Listen to stuff much cheaper, listen to used, there are bargains to be had and this is the way you find them.
I've actually done this for friends a couple times now. Its downright impressive what can be accomplished these days for around $1200 to 1500. Total. The systems I did were CD, SS integrated, bookshelf speakers, interconnect, speaker cables, power cord, and cones. Yes a fully tweaked system for under $1500- and that was all new gear. Buying used you should be able to do even better.