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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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uberwaltz OP
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So far thanks to the many great contributions here I have a fairly short, short list of possible tables.
Kenwood KD500/550/600.
JVC, QL-7/A7
Victor tt71/81
Micro Seiki DD7/8
Denon DP-60/62/80

Now I am sure that some of those are out of my self imposed price bracket like the dp-80 although that also seems to have the most universal thumbs up so it might be time to make the hard call and dig deeper into the pockets!
gibsonian
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Also recommending the TT-101.   Hard to beat and inexpensive relative to many  other vintage TT's in this class.   I have the QL-10 and added a Tenuto mat and some Gaia III's for feet and away I went.   ~$1100.00 in it, and I bought it recapped.   She's a keeper.
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Might be pulling the trigger on a JVC QL-A7.
Looks good and priced very right imho.
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best-groove
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@lewm   ha ha haa I understand! I had misunderstood your sentence.
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I have posted these videos before - this shows the speed accuracy of the DP80 over an entire album side 17 minutes and 28 seconds.  The Timeline on the DP80 is about 26 feet away from the wall across the hall from my listening room, where the dot from the timeline laser is projected over the entire album side it moves forward about 3" or so - I have not calculated how accurate this is but its definitely well within specs.

Good Listening

Peter

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