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Not really advice but more for note, I picked up a very good condition SL1301 for £350, it's from 1979 and everything still works on it.
The turnable side is all electronically controlled, with quartz lock, and a strobe just to check.
The automatic tone arm side is all mechanically controlled, and works really well.
There's not a whole lot that can't be fixed on them that doesn't just boil down to cleaning and lubricating.
"Cogging" is imperceivable, and can't be observed on the strobe.
The Technics headshell is very light, easily the lightest for the money.
Regarding boxy bass, you might find if you're listening to something modern on the bass heavy side that a modern cartridge might be a bit on the bass heavy side for it, for example in Justices Planisphere there's some very low bass sounds that don't sound good through a Goldring E3 or Audio Technica ATN3600L but sounded great through a Goldring Elan.
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...capacitance, how does it work?
Decided to buy a 1210 MK7, finally, and trying to figure out now which catridge to get.
It will only be used for listening, not for DJ-ing / scratching.
The audiophile thread already schooled me that I should be getting a moving magnet one within my budget.
I'm noticing different catridges prefer different ...capacitances (capacities?), and one might / should be keeping this in mind.
How exactly does this work?
I check the pF of the cables in the MK7's tonearm, and the pF of my RCA cable from the MK7 to my amp and that's it, basically (not using a dedicated phono-preamp, at least for now)?