Yeah, I'm with noromance, just buy good quality used. No matter what you play new or used you clean the stylus after each side so the gunked up thing is non issue issue. Many new pressings, even many audiophile reissues, pale in comparison to the older original copies that are out there, many of them for less money. By the time you have bought a dozen you have saved enough to buy the Walker Enzyme 4 Step cleaning supplies, which you want anyway, even new records sound better after cleaning.
If after a Ledermann refurb you are "not able to perceive what others extol" then I have to wonder, what are you using for a phono stage?
If after a Ledermann refurb you are "not able to perceive what others extol" then I have to wonder, what are you using for a phono stage?