what would you get for 1000$ ?

This is my first step into the madness. I have an old, no-name TT I use to play blues and orchestral records and want to get into something nicer. sub 1000, cart and all. having a hard time...
I'm looking at some of the used things on here and vinyl nirvana. Thorens 150 mod with an RB 300, pro-ject 2 xperience (with either a blue point 2 or a suk pearl and cardas silver wire upgrade), an mmf-7 - all for about the same price. Any suggestions in general? Am I looking in the completely wrong direction?