I'm planning a new router table build with the router bolted directly the table. I'm not gong to buy a lift. There are three likely choices for 3.25 HP routers:
Milwaukee 5625
Porter Cable 7518
Triton TRA001
They are all priced closely (low 200s) so cost differences are not significant to me. I won't use any of them enough that wearing them out is an issue either. I don't plan on ever unbolting it from the table.
At this point I would pick the Milwaukee over the PC for the above table adjustment and because I have never been disappointed by the other Milwaukee tools I own.
The Milwaukee vs Triton call is much harder. I'm thinking that the above table bit changing would be really handy and that the depth adjustment is still good.
I'm pretty sure there are no bad choices among the three but if one of them is a real joy to use in my application, I'd like to know.
Ed