After I moved on from the Sony music centre, my first turntable for the first proper HiFi (1978) was a Micro Seiki MB10, which seemed quite good, partnered with a magazine recommended Technics receiver and Marantz speakers.
As I was moving quite a bit in those days (early 80s), I bought a Technics SL-10 for the "improved" system and kept it as my main turntable for years, but never got on with it, and by then CD had taken over as my main source.
A colleague practically gave me a Rega Planar 3 (2009), along with his record collection, and to my ears, this trounced the Technics and reawakened my interest in vinyl so that a few years later when I came in to some money, I bought a second-hand Gyrodec which a RB300 arm with Goldring 1042 cartridge. Recently fettled in the suspension department, it sounds very good, though I am being tempted by the Technics SL-1200G. The Gyrodec is just so big! But if I didn't like the Direct Drive SL-10, maybe the 1200G won't be to my taste either, though apart from DD, I suppose they don't have much in common. For the moment, though, the Gyrodec will do!