Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously?

A few weeks ago I saw a TT-101 in the Victor wood base with tonearm and mounting boards for two other arms asking less than $2,000 on HiFiDo.

a cursory search on completed yahoo jp auctions shows that the last two yamaha 2000x went for US $5k each. That's more than most auctions for sp 10 mk3's. So, Henry is correct....something's afoot, we know not what.

Halcro

You are living dangerously with your vintage DD turntable!

Trash talk my belt drive, and you die!  

LOL!

It's just how things go in the collector market.  Apparently, 2000Xs are right now highly desired in Asia.  If you really can buy a Mk3 for $5K on Yahoo Japan, you might grab it; they are worth a lot more, up to twice that much, in the US.  Many/most of the Mk3s I have seen on there have been in fairly ratty condition.

Haha Don....
I would rarely talk trash about belt-drives in general as I have one myself and enjoy it immensely ☺️
But when they start charging $30 Grand-$200 Grand for gigantic belt drives whose performances can be matched (or bettered) by $1000 well-chosen vintage Japanese DD decks......people need to wake up and smell the roses 🌹
For 30 years the high-end audio world ignored the great Japanese DD 'Statement" products from Technics, Pioneer, Kenwood, Sony, JVC/Victor, Denon etc and convinced the public that belt-drive was the 'only' way to 'turn'.....mainly because anyone could knock up a belt-drive in his garage (and many still do).
If not for the Internet there would still be little recognition for DD turntables as a viable alternative.
When I first entered the audio world with a Technics DD and Kenwood integrated stereo amp....I was soon convinced by all the British Audio mags to go belt-drive. I soon bought a Rega Planar 3 with Hadcock arm and actually heard no discernible differences to my Technics but I happily stuck with the Rega for nearly 30 years.

That was then and this is now.