I'm New To Vinyl - Which Turntable Should I Buy?

Slight quibble with Ruston here--while I fully endorse his claim that wall mounting is preferred when you have wood floor over joists, I would NOT recommend hanging the turntable shelf from the masonry. First, it flexes and vibrates when excited by room resonances and footfalls. Second, it is simply too weak to hold your precious table and the shelf supporting it. Screw your wall mount shelf directly into the studs or, if you do not have studs where you wish to place the shelf, take a 4' H X 32" W (the width between two studs with one in the middle) piece of grade 1 (smooth finish) 5/8" birch plywood and mount it to the studs in the location you desire. First cut away the wall board or plaster in the area where you want to mount the board. Then simply spackle around the perimeter where the plywood meets the wall board/plaster and paint. Now you can screw the wall mount shelf directly into the plywood. You won't even be able to see where the plywood is and will have the ability to easily spackle the holes and repaint should you have to remove the wall mount shelf for any reason. I did this at my house and it works very well.

Hi George. I'm coming from leftfield on this one. I use a Lenco GL75, which i think will outperform all the above tts, but which will need to be replinthed (a bit of diy). See the "building high end tts at home despot" thread. The last few posts by jean antais should get you aclimatised to the philosophy. Spend $200 on the Lenco, get a Rega rb250 arm and rewire it (easy to do), a denon 103 cart(ridge), and blow all the rest of your money on a used phono stage. Whatever you choose, for me vinyl is all i listen to thease days. good luck

Hi Dodgealum, good additional advice on securely mounting the shelf, but are you confusing masonry with dry wall? It's hard for me to imaging a solid block/brick and mortar wall ("masonry") vibrating or not being strong enough to support a shelf. I agree with you completely about not mounting a turntable shelf directly into dry wall. Cheers,

Good advice and recommendations, Guys, thanks.
In addition to my Krell HTS 7.1 preamp/processor, I believe I will need a "phono pre-amp" or "phono stage" in my system? Will this be connected to my existing pre-pro in a pass-thru mode?

Rushton--sorry, I misinterpreted. Certainly block or brick will not vibrate. However, I have always found it difficult to find anchor screws capable of holding significant weight in that type material. Supposing one could find screws to fix the table shelf securely, then that would be a fine choice. Just want to make sure the whole thing doesn't come down in a crash!