Is a GREAT turntable under $2000 possible???

Lenco L70, L75, L78
Nothing can compete with Lenco in this price range.
I hate belt drives. They destroy a PRaT the entity of music.

This weekend my buddy Erik is stopping by to help me set up the TT, carts, phono, etc. I've started purchasing some records and do a pretty good search on pressing reviews but would love to find a site that has lots of easy to read reviews of great albums new and old. I find navigating Steve Hoffman and Discogs a lot of work to get even a little nugget of info. Any recommendations of review album pressing sites???

Well here's one worth knowing:

http://dr.loudness-war.info

More additions would be welcome, and dynamic range isn't everything, but a good place to start.

I looked through all of the responses, and was surprised to see that there was no mention of Bang and Olufsen’s best turntables, and the cartridges that Soundsmiths makes under license from B&O for use with them. These were the most elegantly engineered products of their time, with all components designed to work in concert to provide the optimum result. I sold many of their first great design, the 4000 series tangential tracking turntables, back in the 70s. In A/B listening tests, I was always able to get my coworkers to pick the B&O tables over far more expensive (at the time) products from Thorens, Luxman, Transcriptor, etc., with the best cartridges available at that time.  As a lover and collector of these turntables, I’ve made LP to CD transcriptions that are superior to the store-bought CDs of the albums, with virtually silent noise floors, and, when listening directly to the LPs, a breathtaking (on well engineered acoustic instrument recordings) spatiality that I don’t hear from other turntables. I’d be curious to hear from others who’ve heard a properly set up Beogram 8000, or the even better Beogram 8002.  These were B&O’s only direct-drive turntables, and used a unique, and cog-free method of direct drive. Any other B&O lovers out there?

The wife’s mad cuz I just bought a Technics 1210 GR. I blamed it on this thread, she will giving y’all a talking to!