Hi Chris,

Well as far as a table a good used Rega or Thorens would be nice. You can find the Regas with the 250 arm all day long. Cartridges would depend on if you want MM or MC. You can also find great used Musical Fidelty gear as far a inexpensive phono stage that will handle MM and MC in the older XLP model. I bought one for around 125 dollars a while back. Maybe the technics has a phono stage and you could mount the Staton on the rega for now. If your into vinyl The table and arm combo would be very important.Here's a Thorens 160BMKII that I have with an Ortofon cart and Rega arm. I have around 600 in it but it's a great table. You can find a more stock version of this for FAR less than I have in mine.