Good automatic TT's

I can give you two recommendations.

One, sober up! (Just kidding, kind of.)
I too have had a couple of minor problems when I had a couple of glasses of wine, but I have a system now that seems to prevent accidents. I suggest that you develop your own system where you always put records on the same way. (One thing I do is I leave the cueing arm lever up, when the arm is in the resting postion between records. This prevents the arm from flying across a record and scratching a record, when accidentally bumping the arm off the arm rest. (BTW, would you like to buy a scratched album by "The Verve"?)

Two, I used to have a B&O turntable (Beogram 3000). I did not consider it to have good analog sound. The best I can say is that they are very easy to use, and if you get a decent cartridge, they won't harm your records. (None of my records from the '80's to the '90's, when I was using my B&O 3000, were in bad condition at all, surprisingly. I found this out when I finally got around to getting a decent turntable and cartridge this past year.)

Those are my two cents worth anyway.
Good Luck in your search!

If you can find a Thorens TD126 Mk3 in good condition, it's a very good turntable. It's not fully automatic, instead having a mechanism that lifts the tonearm at the end of the LP. I had a TD126 M3 for about 5 years in the mid-to-late 1980's, and can highly recommend it as a second TT.

I'd probably just get an old Sony, Pioneer, or some such auto table from the 70's for cheap and put on a decent Shure or AT cart. If you got a buzz on to the extent that the hands are a shakin', you probably won't hear the difference in relative sound quality between different auto tables anyway! ;-)

For a while, I actually put away all my high-end stuff, got myself a used heavy-duty Pioneer integrated with phono stage - late '70, two transformers and so on - bought a pair of decent "audiophile" JBLs (really, they were quite good, small two ways), these days Athena techonologies answers the need - and got myself an Elac, which is quite a well-built idler-wheel drive with a smooth, heavy-duty motor. It sounded quite good, mounted with a Shure, and I laughed every time it turned itself off, for a year. This system truly rocked, and was quite detailed without being bright. I still miss its music-intensive non-audiophile style. There is some information out there about the Elac and also Dual idler-wheel drives, which even the late, great Listener magazine deemed good 'tables, devoting a how-to-restore article to them. Idler-wheels have truly good bass, too. Make sure there's no rocking in the bearing, make sure all the headshell gear is there, and check the wheel for flat spots. These'll blow your socks off.

I have a 1980 vintage Sony PS-X800, which is linear tracking with biotracer (servo controlled) arm, and it works to perfection, audiowise and functionally. The X800 is rare and expensive used, but similar Sony linear tracking tables without the biotracer arm are common on E-Bay.

Of course the most practical solution would be to play a CD. When you are two sheets to the wind you probably can't hear the vinyl magic anyway.