Entry level turntable for my son


Hello all, 
My 16 year old has the same audio sickness as me. He recently approached me about acquiring a turntable for his system. Any recommendations on the entry level stuff from Rega, project, music hall, etc? Should I stick with the newer stuff or look for an older model like a Planar 3 or a MMF-5? I still use my Linn LP 12,  but I hear the newer ones out there have some nice new features the older entry level stuff didn’t. I don’t think he will be looking to do any modifications in the near future, he just wants to spin some vinyl. 
Thanks in advance!
skipper320
@sleepwalker65
If he wants to be a rap-“DJ”, then he doesn’t need a turntable, but need a serato box and a rap controller or two.

Since you have deleted my post with the moderator i will repead again that everyhting that coming from you about the art of DJing is an insult to a certain group of people. No matter what do you think about RAP (nobody cares about it), you’re trying to represent an artists like an idiots. I don’t care much about rap, i am into jazz and funk. But you have no idea what you’re talking about and you have a problem with black music, maybe you’re a rasist ?

It’s so obvious how you hate a Rap as a genre, this is a bad word in your vocabulary. For some reason all that negative coming from you related to Technics brand and their turntables, which is rediculous!

Even Jazz Legends like Mr. Ron Carter performing with Rap / Hip-Hop artists, here is the video.

Educate yourself a bit before you slagging off RAP artists or their DJs.

And learn a bit:

DJing is not about RAP at all !

RAP is the rhyme.

Rapper is the one with a Microphone, not the one with a turntable or "rap contoller" as you call it. This culture coming from the black ghetto in the late 70’s and became very popular in the 80s. In the 90s is was worldwide phenomenon, a new culture for youth people.

Their music is Hip-Hop. This genre was born when artists start sampling old Jazz, Funk and Soul from the original records made in the 60s/70s.

Real DJs play vinyl. And even those who DJ’ed with Rap Artists have been doing it with
vinyl  at least for 30 years, most of them still Vinyl ONLY and they are serious record collectors or the different genres of music (original pressings).
Cheaper/earlier  VPIs use the Hurst motor which does NOT have a lower bearing on the motor (God knows why they designed that s..t like that) ?
In a year or so, motor starts getting destroyed.  Keep away from any turntable which uses the Hurst synchronous motors.
@cakyol
You have no clue in making that statement. I’ve been using a VPI HW19 since 1995 and I have never had any trouble with the Hurst motor!
You must be one of the lucky ones.  I used the 'standard' Hurst motor in my Linn Sondek and it broke on me after about 18 months with grinding noises. My point is, I AM talking from experience.

Unless VPI is using a 'specialized' version of the Hurst motor, the issue is there.

At one point, being aware of this issue, I know VPI improved the motor by attaching a brass sleeve to the top bearing but this is a band aid, never a proper solution.

An axial motor without two bearings is bound to fail sooner or later.  It is a design flaw.