Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously?

Hi  rwwear, Thankyou for your post, I am very pleased to see all the incredible kenwood turntable's here on this thread,  thankyou to all of you gentleman,  I feel like a high school kid all over again,  this is quite exciting to learn so much here, I will definitely be pursuing some kenwood deck's over time, would all of you gentleman agree that the Lo7D is the best preference out of all the kenwood deck's  listed here on this thread? 

Hi shadorne, That my friend is a buetiful pioneer pl-550 on your system page,  did you refinish the deck your self?, what cartridge and type of needle is your favorite preference for this turntable?, I would love to get my pl-550  done with this finish,  how would I go about doing the refinish? 

Gentlemen,  A few question's here,  I have seen video's of this funny looking cart on the technics sl-1600mk2, it looks like a concord plane, very long and angles down on the end,  ok,  everyone laugh again,  what's this cartridge called?, can all turntable's use this cartridge?, it seems to have great treble detail to the sound on these videos, also,  what is all of your opinion's for a cartridge and needle for the 1600mk2? I have some sort of collector adc cartridge that I was considering buying the best contact Japanese needle for,  quite expensive,  however,  I was told by a online shop that by doing so,  this would make this adc the flagship,  since that's all adc ever did was improve the needle's going up the cart food chain,  adc seems to be doing another industry now,  no longer making cartridge's. 

@audiolabyrinth not sure which video are you talking about, but i hope you already checked Ortofon Concorde or Tonar Banana. Those cartridges are nothing special, i would say they are very bad cartridges in terms of sound quality. It’s a nonsence to judge the quality of the cartridge by watching the video. If you want Ortofon look for M20FL Super. Which ADC you’re talking about? They are many ADC carts and they are way different from each other, made by different designers etc. For example the ADC TRX made by Nakatsuka-San of ZYX and this model is way different from conventional ADCs. You’re talking about JICO SAS replacements? I owned several ADC cartridges (including the ADC Astrion) and was not impressed at all. You’d better look for Grace F-9F (Shibata/Discrete-4) or Stanton 881 (Stereohedron) and higher. As for the Technics look for rare SP-20 model, it’s cheaper than SP-10mk2.

@dgarretson

I’m not so sure about that. I removed the stock switch box from under my PD444 and substituted a thick, dense wenge wood subplinth that projects forward as a subplinth for a third tonearm mounted to a Micro Seiki brass tonearm board. The big surprise is that SQ was improved for the other two arms mounted to the stock tracks. The subplinth must be acting as a sink for vibration.

I know some people replaced stock feets, but for me LUX 444 works fine in stock condition, i like it better than my SP10mk2. I wouldn’t add 3rd tonearm as i have two LUX PD444, so already 4 tonearms :) However, i’d love to replace side pannels usign some nice wood.

Do you have a picture of your modified 444 ?