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Best vintage DD turntables from the 70's and 80's?

Howdy folks-

We’ll I’ve got the vinyl bug for sure. 6 months ago, I bought my first TT, a nice Technics 1200 GR along with some killer vintage MM carts like Audio-Technica, Stanton and a few Grace. I love my GR! I love that little silver bastard A LOT as a matter of fact. A couple weeks ago, my second table arrived, a minty fresh Luxman PD-444 from Japan. This is a Micro Seiki built TT and was the "tits" in the mid 70’s. I can mount 2 arms on the Luxman. I’ve got a nice Victor 7045 arm coming soon along with a Victor X-1IIe MM cart which work quite well together.

I’d like to add another Vintage TT from the 70’s or 80’s and probably phase out the GR. I like the look of the old Pioneer, Denon and Victor tables. I’d like to get a vintage table that can be serviced if needed, something I can add a sweet vintage arm too. 3 arms are better than two!

I’d like to hear suggestions and comments on some fantastic, cool as crap, vintage turntables that you think should sit next to the Luxman.

Thanks again for your help!

Brent




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billwojo
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Victor upper end models, same as Denons are often referred as "Flying Saucers" although I think the Denons look a bit like a cake that went lopsided. LOL
BillWojo
billwojo
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Matsushita was a Japanese giant that bought the majority share of Victor starting in 1953 but pretty much let Victor (JVC) run itself. Victor was a big engineering firm, they are the ones that designed and built the very first quartz locked direct drive motors and later went on to design and build high end video gear. JVC was a pioneer and at the technological forefront of many technologies.
I think it’s safe to assume that Matsushita was the manufacture of the motors that Victor used as well as Technics. They would have been used in most if not all of the Micro Seiki product line as well. Micro Seiki was a precision machine shop/manufacturing facility, not really into electronics.
Technics was a marketing name made up by Matsushita to sell consumer electronics, it’s not hard to see where they got the technology to build their quartz locked direct drive tables from.
Someone really needs to tie all of these Japanese company’s history together. Many of the people that know are already gone and the rest are elderly. A few years ago I read a lengthy article where a writer had done a lot of research and had stitched together a lot of it but it had a lot of unanswered questions remaining. Now I can’t remember where I read it.
If anyone remembers that, could you please post a link to it? Thanks
BillWojo
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