If they all use the same cheap $5 mechanism to avoid then they are all equally horrible.

This is a gift you are giving to someone? Could you pool together with 2 other people to do $60 x 3 = $180?

AT-LP60X $149 $105 + Bestian $79 $65 powered speakers. The AT-LP60X adds a diamond tip stylus on an MM moving magnet cartridge plus a full size platter and an RIAA phono preamp over the $60 players.