Help with turntable purchase

Great! Thanks very much.  I'm going to pull the trigger on the Rotel and look for an integrated amp with phono.  Any recommendations there would be great.  I've heard mixed reviews on the B&W speakers as far as pairing goes but I think I'll just wing it and see how it goes there.  Thanks again!

Sounds good,just play it with the Shure v15 the stylist may not have to be replaced.Play and enoy.

Shure v15 the stylist may not have to be replaced.

you never know, it's better to replace the stylus than your record collection :) 

Agree with the Rotel. I love my P3...

At your price level most turntables will give you the same performance be it DD or belt but stay away from built in phono stages as if it were the plague . Why ? Because the phono stage is the responsable of converting those extremely small electrical signals pickuped by the cartridge to a servicable level by the line level outputs of the preamp . 

It is also responsable for the Riaa conversion process in order to get your signal back to a flat frequency response , so you can imagine the work the phono stage has to do . The phono stage in a LP playing system is extremely important . Don't skimp on it . 

To go with a integrated amplifier instead of a reciever is excellent advice as the phono stages of most recievers are compromised . If you can swing it new you can get a Rega integrated which would cost about 500.00 . If you go used Rotel has design some excellent integrated with very good phono stages . Marantz is also a candidate .

One word of caution... if you go used , remember you might have to install sooner or latter new capacitors in the integrated unit depending on the age . 

Almost forgot...good thing about turntables is that they are highly modifiable in order to optain better sound as changing the mat , adding mass to the tonearm ( depending on cartridge ) footers , turntable mounts , etc .