Not much talk about Yamaha turntables.

@theophile I don't know what's your problem, but I sense a certain discomfort in your words. Repeating 'please cease repeating...' five times? 

Anyway, Hifido in Japan offers GT-2000 models for sale on a regular basis, usually priced around $2k. Recently they had the much rarer  2000X on sale at over $6k, which sold immediately. At 3x the price of the 'regular' 2000, one might assume there is a 'difference' to justify this, no?

BTW as you are so keen on having all the facts, can you confirm these tables were built by Micro? Or is TVK entry wrong here as well? Inquiring minds want to know....

but I sense a certain discomfort in your words.

With good reason @edgewear.....This has all been discussed multiple times over the years but obviously to no-one's benefit.
@theophile is frustrated and it's not only this Subject that keeps raising itself endlessly....
All your questions have been answered previously.
Please do a Search...🧐
Just to summarise a few points:-

• Micro Seiki did most of the build on the deck and tonearms
• Yamaha lured the designer of the Victor TT-81 motor from JVC
• Yamaha commissioned him to design the motor for the GT-2000 based on the Victor TT-81 with its Bi-Directional Servo Control
• The Yamaha GT-2000 motor is essentially a coreless version of the TT-81
• The motor is the same for all the GT-2000 variations

Thank you halcro.

The following is the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article about the Toyota 2000GT:

"The Toyota 2000GT is a limited-production, front-engine, rear-wheel-drive, two-seat, hardtop coupé grand tourer designed by Toyota in collaboration with Yamaha. First displayed to the public at the Tokyo Motor Show in 1965, the 2000GT was manufactured under contract by Yamaha between 1967 and 1970. A halo car for the automaker, in Japan it was exclusive to Toyota's Japanese retail sales channel called Toyota Store."

The motor on the GT 2000X does differ to the motor in the 2000 and 2000L. In the 2000X motor motor/ spindle shaft is of a larger diameter plus the phosphor bronze well is commensurately larger. This increase in diameter has NOTHING to do with the heavier 18 Kg platter. It was just a refinement made to the motor in conjunction with the introduction of the premium X model. All GT 2000 series( GT 2000 and GT 2000L and GT 2000X) turntables were designed to be used with the optional 18 Kg gunmetal platter. All of them were standard with the 6.5 Kg aluminium platter (ie despite the uprated bearing in the motor of the 2000X, it came standard with a 6.5 Kg platter).
Since so little is known in English about the GT 2000 series turntables it is imperative that what is published is accurate. The Vintage Knob entries have and continue to cause a measure of confusion since many people reference them. People who repeat what they see on TVK add to the dilemma. Others then see the repeat referencing of the TVK mistakes and erroneously conclude that TVK has been corroborated by the 'additional' information.

I have seen these falsehoods innocently stated by lew over the years and have repeatedly politely set the story straight. I should not have to do this every time that lew contributes to a GT 2000 thread. I am exasperated that I need to do this again.
Enough is enough.

Okay, so I assume that the high priced 2000X on Hifido recently must have been equipped with the heavy platter and other ’extra’s’. My mistake.

@halcro my first question was to get confirmation that Micro built these tables. Apparently they did, which still leaves my second question: why didn’t Micro build DD tables of this quality level under their own name?

Apparently they did, which still leaves my second question: why didn’t Micro build DD tables of this quality level under their own name?

It is an interesting question.
Micro Seiki also built Luxman PD-444 Direct Drive