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In Reply to: RE: rigidity? posted by slapshot on April 25, 2017 at 10:49:43
That is awesome. I have never seen a turntable so rigidly built...
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in order to take a photo like that of the MS B111, you would see another even more rigid coupling between bearing and tonearm base.
Micro Seiki probably influenced the design of the L07D--Micro Seiki influenced the design of many Japanese turntables during that time. The L07D (31 kg; platter 5.5 kg) is still lighter than the Micro Seiki BL-111 (36 kg; platter 10 kg). That said, both heavyweights.
However, there was a prototype Kenwood (R-6197) that apparently weighed 150kg. I have not been able to find any images of it online.
To many, Micro-Seiki is regarded as the primordial soup of Japanese turntable design. They get credit for a whole lot, it seems. Regardless of who was involved in its conception and build, the L07D is far superior to any DD that M-S ever marketed under their name. I've always thought that the L07J tonearm, which came with the L07D, "looks" like it might have been designed by M-S. M-S made very heavy, solid turntables, for sure, but so far as I know they did not employ CLD techniques to the degree that is manifest in the L07D. And clearly, Kenwood "stole" the coreless motor in the L07D from Dual, not from M-S. (Kenwood had to revise the motor late in the production life of the L07D, because of legal hassles with Dual.)
By the way, I never knew the B-111 was so hefty, but all the M-S belt drives are substantial products as well. So it should not have surprised me. Albeit, most of them are solid blocks of metal, not (as I indicated) aimed at CLD.
I think we can agree that, for the most part, they don't build them like they used to. :)
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