can afford it, I'd say why not? Looks like a competent piece of equipment and the reviews are good as well. Be sure to get a dust cover for it.

Also, keep the cable from the turntable to the phono amp short. More important than phono amp to pre-amp cable length. Check if you even need a phono amp or one is in your pre-amp and you never used it. Besides the good dust cover idea, get some type of record cleaner, even if just a Discwasher brush and fluid. The turntable and cartridge are a system. So 2/3 of your budget on the turntable itself, 1/3 on the cartridge is something to think about. Read elsewhere on-line how to mount the cartridge, set the tracking force and anti-skate. Records that have been sitting a long time in an uncontrolled environment may need a cleaning on principle. Records should be in a sleeve; if just in the cardboard album cover they will get too many paper particles on them taking them in and out. Eventually you may want some plastic sleeves (Mobile Fidelity) instead of the paper ones. Replace stylus after a several hundred operating hours - especially if you find your record collection contains hard to replace albums. And be careful with the tone arm and needle drops. Unlike cable controversies, or even CD theories ("they all read out the same 1 and 0 pattern so they all sound the same"); records absolutely sound better with a good turntable and cartridge, and you can really hear more from the same record with a better source device. Have fun.