Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously?

fwiw, the manual for the tt 101 states 1.2 kg.cm as the starting torque.

Just for giggles, I looked up the starting torque for Lew's sp10 mk3: a whopping 16 kg.cm. But the platter for that weighs as much as the entire tt 101. So both tables reach operating speed in under 3/4 sec.

Well it seems both figures are as stated.

My original Japanese copy TT-101 1.2kg and the QL-10/TT-101 on TVK 1.8kg do show conflicting figures. Never noticed the
discrepancy before.

Hellow Fellows I have been following this thread with great interest,because for years I have been interested in DD turntables but have never taken the plunge, but think that I may be now ready.
Previously, I have been interested in the Dennons and Micro-Seiki primarily.
I would like to ask you folks would these two manufacturers be the ones that you would recommend or some other make as well?
I have previously been interested in the Dennon models DP 72 and 80.
I would appreciate any advice and or opinions that would be helpful.

Violin

Denon DP80 is a pretty serious drive system. If you can find one it will need to be restored. I'm currently working on restoring 3 each DP3000, one DP2000 (they share the same motor) and one DP80, most definitely the best of them.

The Micro DDX 1500 is very nice too but much harder to come by, I restored one of those a while back DDX1500

Good Listening

Peter

violin:

If Halcro is right in his assessment, I should think that the victor/jvc tt 81 is unbeatable for the price and availability (yahoo Japan always seems to have a handful of them at any given time). Raul was very high on the denon dp 75, so that could be a consideration. I owned a technics sp10 mk2--that's very good. I've always gravitated towards the pretty Pioneer stuff (pl50ii and pl70ii).

The list goes on and on.