Battery Powered Turntables?

I own a Scheu Analog Premier MkII with the battery power option. It will be over your budget but the Scheu Cello should be fine. It was the table I considered prior to getting a deal on a used Premier. Tom Hills at Hudson Audio is the importer and can help you with arm/cartridge combinations for Scheu tables.

My Teres is battery powered. All Teres have that option.

Thanks for the suggestions everyone. The Amazon and Scheu look promising - I'll research those some more.

Thanks again.

Just to be devil's advocate here - and maybe save you some time, money and grief -

No part of ANY turntable's signal path is on the grid. The current is generated purely by the movement of the magnets and coils versus one another. So all you would be doing is using a battery to spin your platter - the speed of which is already electronically regulated very accurately.

Now, I'm not going to get into a big Audiogon argument about the nature of momentum, speed regulation, and platter mass - many audiophiles have vivid imaginations, but IMO there is absolutely no way that powering properly designed belt drive TT (which will have a heavy platter and isolated motor) by battery can possibly have any discernible effect.

Opalchip, you make a good point - I guess hadn't really thought this all through properly. I live in an old house with old wiring that creates a lot of noise pollution - even through my power conditioner. My solution is to take all my equipment off the grid and I made a newbie assumption about the turntable.

Arguments over regulated power to the motor notwithstanding, so long as I have a solid piece of equipment, I shouldn't get any DC noise in my signal path - which is my main concern.