hello, i would try first to get a 70´s technics in good condition ,sometimes they apear on ebay with prices like 195€ or around it and they have a far superior sound compared to most of the new turntables and they come with in-amp to a phono line, this because till a 1000€ nothing comes close and upgrading cartridges are not an improvement that one notices as an example 70´s turntables in good condition have much better sound than this price range of new turntables but the AT-120 something ,the one that loooks like the SL-1200 from technics as the requirements you asked and with new audio-technica stylus (new edition) that sounds a lot better than low reference cartridges of other famous brands like Nagaoka, Ortofon or Sumiko,etc. . If you notice brands like technics , Teac, Magnat ,etc. have them in their new turntables till 1000€´s or a bit more ,if they weren´t good they wouldn´t install them on their new models, and with a cheap cartridge on an old technics you´ll get a sound with much higher fidelity ,i´m using today a technics SL-3310 that was closed in the box since 1980 because at the time they sold components systems with tuner, amplifier, cassette deck also this turntable that i never opened it because i already had at the time 7 better turntables ,but i opened it and all functions (mechanical ones) had not ceased to work after a bit more than 40 years of being closed in the box, the cartridge and stylus was a very good one but today they sell substitution needles but badly fabricated no matter what the sellers say about them, i have been using it´s original cartridge and stylus the EPS-270ES but had to buy a new one because they are not available anymore but i tried a Grado gold III prestige (salso eliptical and made it sound very good wich is not that expensive but the same as they ask for the entire turntable normally. Also there are cheaper eliptical stylus from several brands that make it sound very good, as an example i have a friend that spent 1.000€ (or close) in a pro-ject turntable it came with a 2M red stylus from Ortofon ,it sounded so bad that he bought a Nagaoka MP-100 the cheapest one and now the sound is bad but full of high´s , there´s also goldring new series of stylus and cartridges that sound very good this at aceptable prices . I have to say that i have another friend that is a bit older than me that he uses a Pro-ject turntable wich sounds perfect but between the turntable and cartridge he spent 14.000€´s on it and he uses a early 70´s amplification system from Demidoff(early 70´s) and some late 80´s or a bit later B & W that were the most expensive and powerfull ones ,exluding the snail type speaker (designer made)hand-made and still sold today, this to tell that there are good sounding turntables from pro-ject but too much money spent , my system in 76 cost maybe more but given to me by my father ,after he bought a smi-professional system by Revox wich first only had amplifier, tuner, reel to reel deck, turntable and studer speakers (Revox professional line)this because my mother almost left home he asked for sorry saying that i needed a better sound-system that i had at the time, so he bought a new one for himself and gave to me his 76 pionner top-end system, wich both are mine today, but this all to say that either than technics there are very good turntables from other known brands but the only turntable i found aceptable was the AT similar to the SL-1200mkII and today they ask maybe 360€ for it in black or grey ,the other brands you refer are close to the pro-ject TT´s excluding a Fluance that almost as good sound but too expensive, so this is my advice to you ,allthough today mi have a ...sorry several systems with great quality, i started with a 1970 receiver from pioneer in mono and a turntable also from pioneer in second hand ,kind of their professional line with litle celestion ditton series speakers this in mono with a reel to reel deck that my grandfather ofered me from akai in 1970 a crossfield something with no amplification or speakers just a plain reel deck the cheapest because i was using a high-end reel deck from grundig released in the 50´s and looking very old , this to record radio shows that at the time was the source of every kind of new music and today isn´t a radio music program, is a computer playing randomly songs and a pair of guys making jokes and not knowing the songs they are playing, but this to say either than the SL-1200 made for professional use there are cheaper brands that have their old turntables professional line wich are very resistant to the passage of time and at the same time with very good output sound and not as expensive as the technics SL-1200. This is only my opinion
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