That simplicity is appealing. Me likes. Hope it sounds great. But I haven't had vinyl in 25 years. It's actually made in Canada? I'm curious to know where the electronics were made.

The Onkyo turntable I did have once was $199 in 1984. Made in Japan. My son still had it when we moved to the farm in 2022 and I should have kept it! Except a new, even low grade stylus was about $100 and we didn't have one since the time the vinyl left. I was never crazy about sapphire stylus. Still should have kept it.

@centinel I haven't had a turntable in 40 years, but I used to always have all kinds of home stereo gear. I recall one time buying a new stylus for my Technics turntable, Cathy noticed it and asked me how much I paid for that (we had lived and worked together for years, might have well if called us married), I wasn't then nor am I now one to tell bold faced lies.. but in this case I did. I told her it was something like $14, I said it was usually $28 but I got it on sale --- There was no Internet or anything back then so she couldn't simply look it up. That was such a huge lie because I had actually spent closer to $100 for that new needle! She never did find out the truth!

I doubt I'll ever buy another turntable or tape deck or amplifier or anything, but I do like seeing the retro stuff coming back into fashion. As Artisan point led out previously, the younger generation loves retro, that's why we are seeing a new manufacturing surge of so many new models of turntables, cassette decks, and releases on LP and cassettes. 

A lot of them are higher dollar, but that one above is cheaper at $200, but there are also numerous turntables out now for half that price and cheaper, for example on Temu is this one is only $35

I think I may have posted this before, but it's interesting enough to mention again in this thread..

The “Sound Burger” Portable Turntable By Audio-Technica: $199 USD

https://silodrome.com/audio-technica-sound-burger-turntable/

I don't know what the new turntables sound like, but for that kind of money I doubt it's very good.  Usually, there are no adjustments, such as tracking, anti-skating, etc.

I'm always concerned about playing precious vinyl on cheap turntables.  Without those kinds of adjustments, you can ruin the 'software' pretty quickly.

I own two turntables.   My prize is a Sony direct drive one, that I purchased at a vintage store.  It seemed to work perfectly, but the needle had been mashed, and I bargained them down to under C$20.  I just happened to have picked up a brand new mid level cartridge for about $5 a few weeks previously, thinking it might come in handy.  It did.  So for under C$25 (about US$15), I have a pretty high end vinyl player.

The 2nd one is a Panasonic portable (takes D-size batteries) with removable speakers - they used to be pretty popular in the old days (I'd say the 70s).  It's probably at about the level of most of these new turntables.  It works, and sounds reasonable, but if the record has issues, you have to pull the old trick of taping a coin to the head to make it play.  The speakers are tolerable at best.  I purchased this on e-bay, along with a bunch of other gear, quite a while ago just because it was different.  It pretty much got 'thrown' in with the bundle, but it's the only thing I kept out of the lot, so it turned out to be a bit of a sleeper.

I use the portable to play the more beat up 45s I have.  I don't know if people took greater care of LP's, but generally you can find these in great condition pretty easily.  45s always seem to take the brunt of handling issues.