Just look at this beautiful linear tracking Technics SL-DL5...ain't she grand?

This is a fully automatic Direct Dive player with excellent basic performance and operability in a slim body. A two phase, full-wave, flat-faced, slotless DC motor is used for the motor structure and drive system. The cartridge is a plug-in connector type MM cartridge with an all-laminate core for the magnetic circuit.

Really easy to operate, and in addition, the record size and rotation number are also automatically detected, and auto lead-in is performed.

And it sounds as stunning as it looks.

Fascinating blogpost on a similar Technics Liner Turntable here: https://www.hifi-advice.com/blog/classics/analog-classics/technics-linear-tracking-turntables-part-

I don't generally post turntables due to their fragility and the pain of packaging them, but if you are absolutely determined to have this wing its way to you sing out...I often have friends travelling north and sometimes south who will happily charge what a courier firm charges without all the shaking, if you aren't in a mad rush. Or happy to hold until likewise you or your friends/family are passing through.