Should I buy a VPI SCOUTMASTER. I OWN 25 RECORDS.

Somebody doesn’t get American pop culture. I don’t like mentioning any names but it rhymes with schmaltz.

I think that all this stuff just makes things more complicated.  If you want to try analog, get some simple, turnkey table like a Music Hall 7.1 or whatever the final iteration is and play some records.  It comes with a decent arm and MM cartridge and it's good enough to let you know whether you want to continue with something better in the future.  I did it with a Music Hall 5.1.  I thought it sounded really good and I later upgraded the table after I decided to pursue analog.  If you don't like it, you can sell it for a few hundred loss and move on.  

The table, arm and Hana cartridge is 2100 bucks. Figure a used phono stage for 900 and I'm in ar 3 grand. Not afraid to lose money if I get frustrated with it. My losses in stereo gear is in the thousands. If I am about to drop this amount, what other table/setup do you recommend?

mc, are you drinking again? 

No, too early. Like to try and give it a day or so from when they let me out. Fortunately for me, Seattle, pot shop on every corner. Makes the music so much better you can't imagine. And what they say about short term mem, mmm, uh, where was I? Anyway the newer stuff has no effect on cog, cogniti, oh you know. Not at all. 

Seriously though I don't get why you guys are making it so hard on the OP. You get some records, something to play em on, drop the needle, relax. Sink into sweet music. If the record seems noisy you're not drinking enough. Sound quality problems not smoking enough. Not enough records? Buy more. Want better records? Buy Better Records https://www.better-records.com/search_adv.aspx?option=s_name&min_price=1&max_price=&manu... KISS!