I'll second the Rega Apollo -- I purchased one! But it depends on what's important to you. IMHO, what I like about the Apollo is that it gets "prat" right, and very little else wrong -- the spin-up time is a little long, and it's pretty sensitive to scratches and mars on the surface, and even more sensitive to CD-R's, so if that's important to you, then I would recommend getting something else.