To venture back into vinyl or not,...that is the question.

But what about Lucifer?

Thanks to all for your input.  

I never got rid of my old turntable (Micro Seiki MB14), but I added a couple of new ones in the past couple of years (Rega P3 and Pioneer PLX 1000). I'm really happy with the quality of the equipment. What I'm not so enthusiastic about is the quality of new pressings, including heavy-weight pressings. An unacceptably high percentage of them, including from prestigious labels, suffer from problems that cannot be eradicated by a good cleaning. While I generally prefer the sound quality of LPs to either CDs or hi-res digital recordings, I'd rather listen to a flawless hi-res recording than a noisy LP. Fortunately, I have enough old LPs in great condition that I don't consider my investments in analogue technology wasted.

Anything worth doing is worth doing right.

For $799.00 you could get the Shiite SOL TT and add the Shiite Mani for an additional $129.00 that would be a start then after a while you could upgrade.