I'm well out of the loop on this stuff these days. I have a Rotel RA-931 from the turn of the century and married a Pro-Ject Debut III to it about 8 or 9 years ago. Does the job.
D'oh! I missed a trick there, as I just bought a new one so Mrs Orange and I could secure our records safely away from Junior Orange's grabbing little mitts!
That is the joy of albums really. You buy something for one or two tracks... you might not even like the rest on a first hearing and it gets relegated to the bottom of the pile... then sometime later you listen again and think "why have I not been listening to this more?"
When I got together with the lovely Mrs Orange she came complete with a record box full of albums... but no turntable. So a Pro-ject Debut III was quickly added to my Hi-Fi, and gets the occasional run-out - it was very useful when she wanted to listen to some P.W.E.I. before she went off to a...