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So many great golden era DD tables out there, what do you recommend for $1000?

Pretty much as the title says.
Have been looking for a while for a decent DD table to add to my lot.
Have bought a few lower end ones and ultimately been dissapointed.
Now I know there were/ are literally hundreds of choices from the Japanese Golden era of DD tables.
Looking for suggestions from actual owners of solid DD tables up to about $1000 .
I have read and read but nothing substitutes for real experience.
This would likely not be my primary table, my Garrard 401 has that position for now.

Thank you.
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best-groove
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best-groove, Don't you think the "engine and electronics" ARE the DNA of any turntable, including the DP80?

Surely, but in this way it completely distorts what the Denon wanted to convey to the supporters of the brand.
I do not doubt that the new project is better than the Denon project of 40 years ago, but the price to pay would be high and a likely resale so heavily modified could be long and difficult in finding a new owner or switching to a second hand.
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rauliruegas
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Dear @yogiboy : I think that in some ways all audio items are ( in good shape ) audio toys and from this point of view the 60L is an audio toy and very good Denon TT.

https://www.vinylengine.com/library/denon/dp-60l.shtml

and this toy weigth is 13kg. Till today I do not knew a bad Denon " toy ".

Check in that link the " alto scan " brochure and you will know what that " toy " can offer to any one. Maybe is time that you could recovery it from that basement. Was years ago when you gave it to your syster but through the time I can think you made some up-grades to your system that could make a difference in your way of thinking.


@lewm : specs? well you have to make your home work. Anyway specs can’t tel us the whole history but when you are comparing against other Denon items has a meaning that the item it’s not a low-fi one.

@uberwaltz found out a second unit on ebay at even lower price, you can buy it and can make some $$$$ in the re-sales.. As I said before, Denon never disappointed me.

R.
lewm
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best-groove, So mainly you object to the cost of the PBN version of the DP80 and to the probability that when you go to sell it, you won't make a profit or get your original investment back, which is also true of almost any new audio product.  That's OK, but it's not the point.
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rauliruegas
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/DENON-DP-67L-Analog-player-AC100V-Free-Shipping-d342/254322982564?_trkparms=aid%3D333200%26algo%3DCOMP.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D40719%26meid%3D6cc2c1a30225444a99f43fa21906ac12%26pid%3D100008%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D113900027927%26itm%3D254322982564%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D0%26pg%3D2047675&_trksid=p2047675.c100008.m2219


https://www.ebay.com/itm/Denon-DP-62L-Audiophile-turntable/113900027927?_trkparms=aid%3D1110001%26algo%3DSPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D40719%26meid%3Da60b4a81bfed4ad2b7e541ae8275d20c%26pid%3D100623%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D283627558925%26itm%3D113900027927%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2047675&_trksid=p2047675.c100623.m-1


Both with excellent specs, better than the very well regarded DP-80/75 that I own/owned.

R
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rauliruegas
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/MICRO-DD-8-Analog-player-AC100V-Free-Shipping-d802/254330925516?_trkparms=aid%3D1110001%26algo%3DSPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D40719%26meid%3Df1f069abec2648cd89a59009e022b613%26pid%3D100047%26rk%3D5%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D254322982564%26itm%3D254330925516%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2047675&_trksid=p2047675.c100047.m2108


Looks interesting.

R.


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