@njwvista My assessment of my experience with Vinyl as a source is different to @russbutton
I have experienced very satisfactory music replays on equipment that has not been met with quite so expensive purchase prices for the supporting ancillaries to create a replay, especially in relation to the TT>TA>Cartridge.
Buying Vintage is a way to reduce a cost, but as said, additional monies may need to be parted with to get the best from it, especially if a DD TT is the selected model.
Other designs could just require a simple Platter Bearing Service and many TT's have pictorial guidance available on how to achieve this.
There is plenty in other posts as a direction that will mean that these suggestions are only to broaden your knowledge of choices, as a late adopter of the medium, as a new user or returning user, a New TT like the AT shown will be just fine.
When it comes to collecting Vinyl, there is a cost, but in some cases a cost that can show an appreciation over time.
Vinyl today as a medium, is of interest to more than those interested in audio, it is being collected as a commodity for these very reasons. Used sales sites even have a App that enables one to track their collections value on a daily basis, which is very commodity market like as a practice.
Here is a experience had by myself that is only a few years old.
I had a shortlist for some Vinyl Album Purchases, mainly being reserved as Birthday and Xmas gifts.
Over the course of a Year, one wanted Album heard many times as a CD and remaining readily available as a CD today, slipped through my list of purchases made. I held off on the idea, and decided it would be a Easter Treat, when pulling the trigger on the purchase the Album that was once £30 and not much more than a year from release was approx' £700 to purchase as Vinyl.
There is not any reason to avoid buying Vinyl, it is today one type of the Hard Media Merchandise, that is being readily made available by Performers, which is enabling Performers and those that support them, to receive fair remuneration for their work, in a much larger measure than streaming royalties will pass onto them.
This in itself means Vinyl is being produced in smaller batches, as it is funded to be produced directly by the Performers, and will at times peak for the demand, which can mean prices that are showing appreciation.