High-end TT setup with phono stage built in

VPI Player? Not quite up to budget but if a lifestyle product is your requirement and you can improve the cartridge maybe.

Build yourself a Lenco based deck, you can make space for a phonostage in the plinth you build yourself, you get to pick the arm and they run off mains voltage.

You’ll have to try hard to avoid a turntable with a ps at the level you’re thinking of anyway so what’s another box?

Adding my voice to an old discussion, but I thought it would be helpful to note the T+A G 2000 R with the Clearaudio-style tonearm and internal MC phono stage option is a pure delight to operate and sounds better than the AMG Giro G9 I had in my system (matched even with expensive external phono preamps). Among others, there is a helpful review on HiFi News with associated measurements here: https://www.ta-hifi.de/en/audiosystems/r-series/g-2000-r-turntable/

Thank you. This might be close to my price point.
I will take a look at the G2000R.

The best choice here would be an EMT 938 or 948. Complete with cartridge and built in phono stage.

A friend of mine suggested the same.
These are vintage. How do I go about procuring one of these, it needs careful restoring by someone who knows what he's doing, right?