FLO's journey with the Micro Seiki RX-1500

[exupgh12]

Congratulations on your new turntable.

 

[Juiced]

Congrats again on your new table!

i recommend switch to thread and remove the additional weight from the 3012r,
but i guess it’s a matter of personal preference.

 

[PeterA]

Thanks Peter! Not yet, I'm quit happy with the TechDas kevlar belt. Also the tension is set as mentioned in the manual. Less tension as possible, as many as necessary.

Why are you asking? Any suggestion for me?


Cheers,
Florian

Florian, I once owned a Micro Seiki SX 8000II. It is a great table. I did a bunch of experiments with the connection between the motor and the platter. I went from the non stretch Micro belt to dental floss to a very thin thread. I then carried those experiments with another higher mass table the American Sound AS1000, and finally the AS2000, my current table.

I prefer thread that is fairly loose, and also long. Moving the motor away reduces motor noise migrating through the top shelf into the platter. A loose thread furthers this by reducing motor noise reaching the platter. My platter and bearing are different from those on your AF3, so I do not know what you will hear, but I think it is worth experimenting. For me, it was about bass quality and a more natural presentation.

I have only heard an AF3 once at a dealership so it was hard to know what the table was doing, but I suspect your new turntable is really excellent. Good choice.

 

[puroagave]

I owned the AF3, you can't improve upon the textile belt that is specifically made for it.

 

[Tandem]

Very nice thread albeit, you give too much credit to mister Nishikawa work for Micro Seiki. It was the director and other men of Micro Seiki who were very discret who were the actual driving force. The RX series, the BL series and so on were all made before mister Nishikawa arrival actually so he had no participation in this regard.

He got very famous from his work with Micro Seiki but he only arrived at the end of the company, and he participated in the development of a few turntables in the 80s but that's about it, and became lead designer for the juggernauts turntables but it was mostly based on what Micro Seiki director made before. Actually, a lot of the Micro Seiki funder and director design were too big, too much demanding to be brought to life at the time in a marketed manner, it would have been even larger and bigger than the SX-8000. So, he went to mister Nishikawa to have a more "compact" vision of a juggernaut turntable. Such turntables design existed only for a few clients based on the RX systems thanks to the modularity and needed a special long version belt.

To give you an idea of the basic of his ideas, it was to start with a double RX-5000 placed next to each others to have two turntables working together with the one on the most right receiving the record, and was a big fan of 40cm platters instead of 31cm platters. But again, it was quite a challenge at the time in Japan to find how to find place for all of it. There were others refinement as well that were taking quite some place again apparently but I could never get a hold on the recipes beside little hints that there was more.