Would you still pay $10k or more for a turntable not full analog front end these days ?

As to the question from the OP I would, actually did recently. Reading on WBF it seems the best digital streaming Wadix will run you up to 140 K and according to ML it can get you almost as good as your analog. 

Having pretty much all the music I can see myself enjoying I'll pass. Without my collection maybe do digital, maybe not. I want get as close to sublime as possible. That's where my pleasure lies for the most part. 

My turntable was about 5000 dollars in the "old" day.s...that's 10000 dollars today.

No, that’s a ridiculous amount of money for either component. I can be satisfied 100% with much less than that and use the funds for better purposes.

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I think the solution is buy used on both from a reputable dealer

What could be a better purpose than buying excellent turntable ?

I have 30 other priorities/purpose for my hard earned money that isn't a turntable