@chayro, Thanks. My daughter and her husband are new to this, so they will certainly benefit from your caution regarding placement. We will take a look at the Music Hall 5.3. BTW, I pulled my old Pioneer PL-51 direct drive out of storage where it has been since 1984. It has some issues with hum and one channel seems dead, but I suppose it could be fixed. Is it worth spending a few hundred on? I understand there is an outfit that specializes in restoring these.
Starter turntable and MM cartridge recommendations
My daughter and her husband are putting together their first system. They are wanting to build their system around vinyl, but are on a limited budget, with something like $700-$1000 allocated for that table and a MM cartridge. They will be using the internal MM phono preamp on a Lyngdorf 2170 integrated. A used table is fine.